俳
pái

actor

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

非
非 Sound component
fēi not

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangbrɯːl

說文解字

戲也。从人非聲。

Sources

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