Read Edit View history 僃 bèi prepared Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Character Evolution Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Clerical Qin 221-206 BC Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD ▼ More ▲ Less Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica