pèi

abundant

Circulating 巿 water , representing a flood

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

巿 meaning component

巿  Meaning component

  

ceremonial knee coverings

Evolution

沛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沛 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
沛 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
沛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pèi

abundant, full, copious; sudden; copious; abundant

Most common words with 沛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

精力充沛

vigorous

充沛

abundant

copious

颠沛流离

to drift

丰沛

copious

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.0984% of movies

3058th most common character in movies

3032nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C9B

Shuowen

“沛,水。出遼東番汗塞外,西南入海。从水,市聲。”


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