彆 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

biè HSK1

dissuade

Phonosemantic compound. 弓 represents the meaning and 敝 represents the sound.

Components

弓 Meaning component

gōng bow

敝 Sound component

bì worn out

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	peds
	peːd

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

另 Iconic component

lìng (bones), another

Depicts a bone.

刂 Iconic component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	pred
	bred