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TSUMUGU · TOCFL 2 (est.) · 字
輩 character · TOCFL 2 (est.)
輩 ＝ 車 ＋ 非
ㄅㄟˋ · bèi
noun — generation, cohort; a kind of people

字源 FORM — what the parts do

車義a cart
非聲fēi — gives the soundtwo wings turned away from each other
{b,p,f}ITfēi → bèi — the {b,p,f} crossing; tone shifts too
非 fēi, the two-wings-apart graph, over a cart (車). A hundred carts drawn up in one line was a 輩 — a rank, a row. From the row of carts came the row of people born together: 前輩、晚輩、我輩. 非 lends the sound, f hardened to b.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一百輛車（車）排成一列，後面一列又跟上——一輩接一輩。
A hundred carts (車) drawn up in a row, another row behind — one cohort after the next.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)百兩為輩— a line of carts, a rank
→前輩、晚輩— generation, cohort常用
⇒我輩、無能之輩— a kind, a class of people
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
非fēithe bare phonetic — 輩 sets a cart 車 below the two wings輦niǎnthe cart-sibling — 輦 is two men pulling, 輩 is carts in a line