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biéde HSK1

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bié, biè separate Simplified

Simplified form of 別. Depicts a knife (刂) cutting meat off of a bone (另).

Components

另 Iconic component

lìng (bones), another

Depicts a bone.

刂 Iconic component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

捌

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

捌

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	pred
	bred

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang

de, dì, dí [possessive]

Original meaning: bright

Phonosemantic compound. 白 represents the meaning and 勺 represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "bright".

Components

白 Meaning component

bái, bai white

Change in meaning

白 hints at the original meaning of 的, "bright", which is no longer the most common meaning of 的 in modern Mandarin.

勺 Sound component

sháo, shuò, zhuó spoon

Change in sound

的 and 勺 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
的 *[t-l]ˤewk
勺 *m-tewk

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tek	[t-l]ˤewk	bright; mark in a target

說文解字

《說文》：“旳，明也。从日，勺聲。《易》曰：‘為的顙。’”

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

bié, biè separate Traditional

Depicts a knife (刂) cutting meat off of a bone （冎）.

Components

冎 Iconic component

guǎ bone

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 冎 than it was in ancient scripts.

刂 Iconic component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bjet	N-pret	be separated (intr.)
	pjet	pret	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
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

别 bié, biè separate Simplified

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Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

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的 de, dì, dí [possessive]

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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別 bié, biè separate Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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bié, biè separate Simplified

de, dì, dí [possessive]

bié, biè separate Traditional