pái

actor

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

非 sound component

  Sound component

fēi

  

not

Evolution

俳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
俳 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
俳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pái

actor; vaudeville show; insincere; not serious; variety show

Most common words with 俳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

not serious

俳句

haiku

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4981st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+4FF3

Shuowen

“俳,戲也。从人,非聲。”


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