a parapet on a city wall

Components

Meaning component
hill, place

city

Sound component
bēi humble, inferior

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangbe
Unicodebhiɛ

說文解字

城上女牆俾倪也。从𨸏卑聲。

Sources

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