pèi
bridle of horse
Rope 糹 yoking a horse to a chariot 車 by its mouth 口
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pr[i][t]-s | pijH | pèi | reins |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4619th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F61 |
Shuowen | “轡，馬轡也。从絲，从軎。與連同意。《詩》曰：‘六轡如絲’” |
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