What does bay mean?

The word shell generally refers to mollusks with shells, but in ancient times shells were people's favorite decorations and money.

It is a first-class standardized Chinese character (commonly used word). This word was first seen in Shang Dynasty Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Shang Dynasty inscriptions, and its ancient glyph resembles seashells. The word shellfish generally refers to mollusks with shells, but in ancient times it mainly refers to seashells. In ancient times, shells were people's favorite decorations and money, representing certain wealth, so the words with "shells" as the signifier were mostly related to money or precious meaning.

Because Bei is a kind of currency, most Chinese characters from Bei later appeared money-related phenomena, such as "_ (buy), _ (sell)" (buying and selling things need money to participate, so this behavior also comes from Bei), "bribe, bribe" (bribes are usually made with money, and gifts are also forms of money) and "reward, give and give" ("Bei"