褊
biǎnpián

cramped

Components

衤
衤 Meaning component
yī clothes

cloth

扁
扁 Sound component
biǎn flat

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangpenʔ
Unicodebiɛ̌n

說文解字

衣小也。从衣扁聲。

Sources

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