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Components

Sound component
pì, bì law
Meaning component
shǒu, shou hand

hand

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpɛkpˤrek
(~ *mə-pˤrek)
cleave, split
Zhengzhangpreːɡ

說文解字

撝也。从手辟聲。

Sources

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