敝
bì

worn out

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approved by Prismcool · Nov 14, 2023, 04:52 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Nov 14, 2023, 04:52 PM

㡀

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Depicts a hand (攵) beating a cloth with specks of dust (㡀).

Components

㡀
㡀 Iconic component

Depicts a cloth (巾) with specks of dust.

攵
攵 Iconic component

攵 is a component form of 攴.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
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
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbjiejH[b]e[t]-s destroy; worn out

說文解字

《說文》：“敝，帗也。一曰敗衣。从攴，从。亦聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)