biǎn

cramped

Components
衤 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

cloth

扁 sound component

  Sound component

biǎnpiān

  

flat

Evolution

褊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
褊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

biǎn

cramped, narrow, crowded; mean; narrow; urgent

Most common words with 褊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

narrow

褊狭

narrow

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5944th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+890A

Shuowen

“褊,衣小也。从衣,扁聲。”


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