bēi

dam

Components

Meaning component
hill, place

hill

Sound component
skin

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpjep(r)a[j]river bank; dike
Zhengzhangpral
prals
Unicodebyɛ

說文解字

阪也。一曰沱也。从𨸏皮聲。

Sources

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