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敗

bài

be defeated

Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 貝 represents the sound.

Components
貝 sound component

貝  Sound component

bèi

  

sea shell

攵 meaning component

攵  Meaning component

pū

  

tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Evolution

敗 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

败 (敗) 

bài

be defeated, decline, fail; to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither

Most common words with 敗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

失败

to lose

打败

to defeat

败

to defeat

击败

to defeat

腐败

corruption

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-pˤra[t]-s

baejH

bài

suffer defeat

*pˤra[t]-s

paejH

bài

defeat (v.t.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 45.1546% of movies

863rd most common character in movies

862nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

败

Unicode

U+6557

Shuowen

“敗，毁也。从攴、貝。敗賊皆从貝，會意。贁，籀文敗，从賏。”


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