bì
buttocks
A low 卑 bone 骨; 卑 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 髀
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
thigh | ||
Zhou Bi Suan Jing, or Chou Pei Suan Ching, one of the oldest Chinese texts on astronomy and mathematics |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-pˤeʔ | bejX | bì | femur |
*peʔ | pjieX | bì | femur, haunch |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5978th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+9AC0 |
Shuowen | “髀，股也。从骨，卑聲。，古文髀。” |
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