稗 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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bài

darnels

Components

禾 Meaning component

hé

grain stalk

grain

卑 Sound component

bēi

humble, inferior

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

bài

darnels, weeds, tares small; barnyard millet (Echinochloa crus-galli); Panicum crus-galli; (literary) insignificant; trivial

bài

polished rice; old variant of 稗[bài]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*C.[b]ˤre-s	beaH	bài	weed resembling grain

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4912th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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