What 卑 means
It is a written variant of 卑, read bēi in Mandarin.
The character 卑 can mean physically low, low in rank, deferential, or base; surrounding words show which sense is meant. This written form adds no separate word or reading.
The variant is documented on the Yin Zhou Stele (尹宙碑), a stone inscription dated 177 CE. Unicode retains it for round-trip conversion—the ability to convert text into Unicode and back—through the sixth plane, or section, of Taiwan’s CNS 11643 character-exchange standard.
Technical and archival: it marks a legacy character-set distinction, not emphasis in a message.
Who writes 卑
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Questions people ask
1Why does 卑 become 卑?
Unicode NFC normalization, a standard text-cleanup step, maps this character to 卑. Unicode also registers 卑 followed by the variation selector UFE01 to request the alternate glyph when a system supports it.
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How to type or find 卑
- Search it as
- 卑 · 卑 variant · 2f82d · t6-2f38 · cns 11643
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
卑\2F82DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.