Unicode: U+72C8

Pinyin: bèi

Definition

* 传说中的一种兽,狼属,前腿短,走路时要爬在狼身上,没有狼,它就不能行动。 狼~(形容困苦或受窘的样子)。狼~为奸(喻彼此勾结做坏事)

a legendary animal with short forelegs which rode a wolf

Structure

狈 graph

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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Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC