賁 - Dong Chinese dictionary

bì, bēn

forge ahead

Original meaning:

adornment

Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning, 卉 represents the sound. Originally meant "adornment". Later meanings are phonetic loans.

Components

犇 Sound component

bēn

run fast

卉 is the modern component form of 犇

賁 and 犇 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.賁 /*pˤur/, /*por-s/, /*[b]ur/
犇 /*pˤur/

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 犇 than it was in ancient scripts.

貝 Meaning component

bèi

sea shell

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

贲 (賁)

bì

forge ahead; energetic; surname; bright

贲 (賁)

Bēn

surname Ben

Most common words with 賁

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	贲	surname Ben
	贲门	cardia (anatomy)

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

憤噴墳

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*pˤur	pwon	bēn	ardent, brave
*por-s	pjeH	bì	ornate (name of a hexagram)
*[b]ur	bjun	fén	great, big

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4733rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Simplified	贲
Unicode	U+8CC1
Shuowen	“賁，飾也。从貝，卉聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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