卑鄙龌龊
bēi​bǐ​wò​chuò

vile and sordid

卑 bēi humble, inferior

Pictograph of a hand holding a tool used by servants.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (3 of 19 verified)

牌碑脾啤婢俾裨稗捭睥髀萆鹎蜱郫埤陴痺鵯

Meaning (0 of 6 verified)

婢颦鼙髀庳顰

Iconic (0 of 1 verified)

裨

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpjiepe low, humble
pjiepe 鮮卑 *s[a]r.pe Xiānbēi

說文解字

《說文》：“卑，賤也，執事也。从、甲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

鄙 bǐ rustic

Phonosemantic compound. 啚 represents the sound and ⻏ represents the meaning. Originally written as 啚.

Components

啚
啚 SoundMeaning component
bǐ, tú remote place
⻏
⻏ Meaning component
yì city

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Spring and Autumn ~600 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpijXprəʔ border town

說文解字

《說文》：“啚，嗇也。从囗、。，受也。，古文啚如此。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

龌 wò narrow Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 齿 represents the meaning and 屋 represents the sound. Simplified form of 齷.

Components

齿
齿 Meaning component
chǐ teeth
屋
屋 Sound component
wū house, room

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

龊 chuò narrow Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 齿 represents the sound. Simplified form of 齪.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
齿
齿 Sound component
chǐ teeth

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

齷 narrow Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 齒 represents the meaning and 屋 represents the sound.

Components

齒
齒 Meaning component
chǐ teeth
屋
屋 Sound component
wū house, room

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqroːɡ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

齪 narrow Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 齒 represents the sound.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
齒
齒 Sound component
chǐ teeth

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰroːɡ
sʰruɡ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang