biāobiào

throw out

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

hand

Sound component
piào slip of paper or bamboo

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbjiewX[b]ewʔfall down, strike down
phæwpʰˤrewcast aside
phewpʰˤewstrike down
Zhengzhangpʰew
pʰews
bewʔ

說文解字

擊也。从手票聲。一曰挈門壯也。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica