bèi

generation, lifetime

Original meaning: 

large group of chariots

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "large group of chariots". The meaning later shifted to "group of things" and "generation". Simplified form of .

Components
非 sound component

  Sound component

fēi

  

not

车 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

Evolution

辈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
辈 Seal script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Seal script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
辈 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
辈 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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bèi

generation, lifetime; class; lifetime; generation; group of people; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people

Most common words with 辈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

一辈子

(for) a lifetime

辈子

lifetime

前辈

senior

lifetime

半辈子

half of a lifetime

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 32.7086% of movies

1235th most common character in movies

1477th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+8F88


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