別
biébiè HSK1

separate

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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
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
刂 Iconic component

刂 is a component form of 刀.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbjetN-pret be separated (intr.)
pjetpret separate (tr.)

說文解字

《說文》:“,分解也。从冎,从刀。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.336
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica