property

Components

Sound component
this
Meaning component
bèi sea shell

money

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

property Traditional

Components

Sound component
this
Meaning component
bèi sea shell

money

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangʔse
Unicodetziɛ

說文解字

小罰以財自贖也。从貝此聲。漢律:民不繇,貲錢二十二。

Sources

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