Chinese Character Wiki
鄙

bǐ

rustic

Phonosemantic compound. 啚 represents the sound and ⻏ represents the meaning. Originally written as 啚.

Components
啚 sound,meaning component

啚  Sound Meaning component

bǐ

  

remote place

⻏ meaning component

⻏  Meaning component

yì

  

city

Evolution

鄙 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鄙 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鄙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鄙 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鄙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鄙  

bǐ

mean; low; rustic; base; to despise; to scorn

Most common words with 鄙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

卑鄙

base

鄙视

to despise

鄙

low

鄙人

I

鄙夷

to despise

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*prəʔ

pijX

bǐ

border town


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.1714% of movies

2061st most common character in movies

2510th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+9119

Shuowen

“啚，嗇也。从囗、。，受也。，古文啚如此。”


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