give to

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
贝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

台 sound component

  Sound component

tái

  

platform

Evolution

贻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
贻 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
贻 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

give to, hand down, bequeath; to present; to bequeath

Most common words with 贻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

贻笑大方

to make a fool of oneself

贻贝

mussel

贻误

to affect adversely

to present

贻害

to have bad consequences

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3504th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+8D3B


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