biān

bamboo container for food

Evolution

籩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
籩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
籩 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
籩 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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biān

bamboo container for food; basket for fruits

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pe[n]

pjien

biān

kind of vessel


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5252nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+7C69

Shuowen

“籩,竹豆也。从竹,邊聲。”


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