bèi be contradictory to

Components

Meaning component
xin, xīn heart

heart

Sound component
bó, bèi flourishing, thriving

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Warring States 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbwojH[b]ˤut-sconfused
bwot[b]ˤutconfused
Zhengzhangbɯːds
bɯːd

Sources

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

móu, miù, miào wind around Simplified

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
liù, lù to sweep away, to remove

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

wind around Traditional

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
liù, lù to sweep away, to remove

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangmlɯw
mɡrɯw
mrɯws
mlɯwɢ
Unicodemiəu

說文解字

枲之十絜也。一曰綢繆。从糸翏聲。

Sources

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