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biéBié HSK1

separate

approved by Peter Olson · Oct 7, 2020, 10:47 AM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 7, 2020, 10:47 AM

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Depicts a knife (刂) cutting meat off of a bone （冎）.

Components

冎 Iconic component

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 冎 than it was in ancient scripts.

刂 Iconic component

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bjet	N-pret	be separated (intr.)
	pjet	pret	separate (tr.)

《說文》：“，分解也。从冎，从刀。”