贳
shì

borrow

Components

世
世 Sound component
shì generation
贝
贝 Meaning component
bèi sea shell

money

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

貰 borrow Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsyejH[l̥][a]p-slend, borrow
Zhengzhangɦljebs
hljebs

說文解字

貸也。从貝丗聲。

Sources

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