bǐ
that
Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 皮 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 彼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
each other | ||
Peter (name) | ||
that | ||
the other shore | ||
repeating continuously |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pajʔ | pjeX | bǐ | that |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 25.0040% of movies
1127th most common character in movies
1256th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5F7C |
Shuowen | “彼，往有所加也。从彳，皮聲。” |
Sources
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