biǎn

to put a coffin in a grave

Components
穴 meaning component

  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

hole

乏 unknown component

  Unknown component

  

lack

Evolution

窆 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
窆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
窆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

biǎn

to put a coffin in a grave; to put a coffin in the grave

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pr[o]m-s

pjemH

biǎn

put coffin in grave


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6065th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+7A86

Shuowen

“窆,葬下棺也。从穴,乏聲。《周禮》曰:‘及窆執斧’。”


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