pī
wear
To put on 扌 fur 皮; 皮 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
pī
wear; split; crack; to drape over one's shoulders; to open; to unroll; to split open; to spread out
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰ(r)aj | phje | pī | divide |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 8.6337% of movies
2017th most common character in movies
2032nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+62AB |
Shuowen | “披，从旁持曰披。从手，皮聲。” |
Sources
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