Origin

This character combines the person radical on the left with components on the right that suggest scarcity or smallness. The right side originally depicted something minimal or barely there, which pairs with the person element to convey the idea of a person having only a tiny amount of something. Over time, the character came to mean "a wee bit" or "scarcely," capturing the sense of something so small it's almost negligible.

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.