drum carried on horseback

Components
鼓 sound component

  Sound component

  

drum

卑 meaning component

  Meaning component

bēi

  

humble, inferior

drum

Evolution

鼙 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鼙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鼙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

drum carried on horseback

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤe

bej

small hand-drum


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5677th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Unicode

U+9F19

Shuowen

“鼙,騎鼓也。从鼓,卑聲。”


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