pài
river branching
Depicts a river dividing into two branches. Flipped version of 永.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+200A2 |
Shuowen | “永，長也，象水巠理之長。《詩》曰：‘江之永矣’。” |
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