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貴

guì

expensive

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

Components
㬰 sound component

㬰  Sound component

kuì, yú

  

basket

貝 meaning component

貝  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

Depicts a shell, used as currency in ancient China.

Evolution

貴 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
貴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

贵 (貴) 

guì

expensive, costly, valuable; expensive; noble; precious; (honorific) your

Most common words with 貴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

贵

noble

珍贵

precious

宝贵

valuable

贵族

lord

高贵

grandeur

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

饋

Sound component in 7 characters (3 verified)

遺 匱 蕢 潰 饋 簣 聵

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kuj-s

kjw+jH

guì

precious; expensive


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 33.7979% of movies

1145th most common character in movies

873rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

贵

Unicode

U+8CB4

Shuowen

“，物不賤也。从貝，臾聲。臾，古文蕢。”


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