bèn
foolish
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 本 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 30.8025% of movies
1098th most common character in movies
2323rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+7B28 |
Shuowen | “笨，竹裏也。从竹，本聲。” |
Sources
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