glazed tiles

Components
辟 sound component

  Sound component

  

law

瓦 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earthenware

pottery

Evolution

甓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
甓 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
甓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

glazed tiles, bricks; glazed tile

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤek

bek

tile, brick


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6096th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+7513

Shuowen

“甓,瓴甓也。从瓦,辟聲。《詩》曰:‘中唐有甓。’”


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