貝
bèi

sea shell

贝 貝 bèi
shellfish noun
shellfish; shelled mollusks such as clams and snails; a shell or cowrie
money
(archaic) shells used as ancient currency; cowrie money
Bei
a Chinese surname
[palm]
(bound form) short for 贝多 bèi​duō, the pattra tree or palmyra palm whose leaves were used for writing Buddhist sutras
shell trumpet
an ancient wind instrument made from a conch shell, often used in Buddhist music

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,133rd most common 127.5 per million
Movie subtitles
395th most common 375.6 per million appears in 63% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
17.7 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
24.3 per million

Details
Simplified
贝
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+8C9D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)