add

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

卑 sound component

  Sound component

bēi

  

humble, inferior

Evolution

埤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
埤 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
埤 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
埤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
埤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

add, increase, attach; low fence; low wall

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6740th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+57E4

Shuowen

“埤,增也。从土,卑聲。”


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