bié

to limp

A broken  foot  also provides the pronunciation

Components
敝 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

worn out

足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

Evolution

蹩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蹩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bié

to limp; limp

Most common words with 蹩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蹩脚

inferior

limp

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5469% of movies

2925th most common character in movies

4308th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+8E69

Shuowen

“蹩,踶也。从足,敝聲。一曰跛也。”


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