cut apart

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
刀 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

辟 sound component

  Sound component

  

law

Evolution

劈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
劈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

cut apart, split, chop; to hack; to chop; to split open; (of lightning) to strike

 

to split in two; to divide

Most common words with 劈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to hack

劈叉

to do the splits

劈开

to cleave

劈头盖脸

showering down

劈柴

to chop firewood

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6109% of movies

2824th most common character in movies

2487th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+5288

Shuowen

“劈,破也。从刀,辟聲。”


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