gift of money help pay funeral

Components

Meaning component
bèi sea shell

money

Sound component
fū, bù, fǔ state, announce

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

gift of money help pay funeral Traditional

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