pín

poor

Money  that must be split also provides the pronunciation

Components
分 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

fēnfèn

  

divide

贝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

Evolution

贫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
贫 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
贫 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

pín

poor, impoverished, needy; poor; inadequate; deficient; garrulous

Most common words with 贫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

贫困

poverty

贫穷

poor

贫血

anemia

poor

贫民窟

slum housing

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 8.4895% of movies

2025th most common character in movies

1359th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+8D2B


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