gift of money help pay funeral

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangbaɡs

說文解字

助也。从貝尃聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

gift of money help pay funeral Simplified

Components

Meaning component
bèi sea shell

money

Sound component
fū, bù, fǔ state, announce

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode