silks

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
白 sound component

  Sound component

bái

  

white

巾 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

cloth

Evolution

帛 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
帛 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
帛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
帛 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

silks, fabrics; wealth, property; silk

Most common words with 帛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

silk

化干戈为玉帛

fig. to turn hostility into friendship

布帛

cloth and silk

财帛

wealth

帛画

painting on silk

Component uses

Meaning component in 6 characters (1 verified)

綿

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤrak

baek

silk


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3682nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5E1B

Shuowen

“帛,繒也。从巾,白聲。”


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