裨
bìpíPí

aid

Clothing 衤 for the poor 卑; 卑 also provides the pronunciation

Components

衤
衤 Iconic component
yī clothes
卑
卑 SoundIconic component
bēi humble, inferior

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangpe
be
Unicodebhiɛ

說文解字

接益也。从衣卑聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)