Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | ba | [b]ˤar | white, white-haired |
| Zhengzhang | paːl | ||
| baːl | |||
| Unicode | bhɑ |
說文解字
老人白也。从白番聲。《易》曰:“賁如皤如。”
Sources
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)