罴
pí

brown bear

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

羆 brown bear Traditional

Components

罒
罒 Unknown component
wǎng net or eye
熊
熊 Meaning component
xióng a bear

bear

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpjeprajbrown-and-white bear
Zhengzhangpral
Unicodebyɛ

說文解字

如熊,黃白文。从熊,罷省聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica