bēng HSK7

a cloth to carry an infant on the back

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica

běng, bēng bind Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
silk

is a component form of .

Sound component
péng friend

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode