Unicode: U+6896

Pinyin: bèi

Definition

* 〔~多〕即贝叶树,常绿乔木,叶子用水沤后可以代纸,古代印度人多用以写佛经

a palm-tree

Structure

Related substructures

Precursors

Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
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