bǐ
writing utensil
Depicts a utensil for writing (聿) made from bamboo (⺮).
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 筆
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pen | ||
notebook (stationery) | ||
the author | ||
notes | ||
(lead) pencil |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p.[r]ut (borrowed as *prut from Qín dialect) | pit | bǐ | writing brush |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 42.3034% of movies
925th most common character in movies
956th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7B46 |
Shuowen | “筆，秦謂之筆。从聿，从竹。” |
Sources
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