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辟

pì, bì

law

Depicts punishing a kneeling person (卩) with a curved knife (䇂).

Components
卩 iconic component

卩  Iconic component

jié

  

person kneeling

䇂 iconic component

䇂  Iconic component

qiān

  

sickle, curved blade

Depicts a curved knife used to punish criminals.

口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

辟 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
辟 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
辟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
辟 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
辟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

辟  

pì

law, rule; open up, develop; law; variant of 闢|辟[pì]

辟  

bì

king; monarch; to enlist; to repel; to avoid

辟 (闢) 

pì

open; settle, develop, open up; to open (a door); to open up (for development); to dispel; to refute; to repudiate

Most common words with 辟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

开辟

to open up

辟

to dispel

精辟

incisive

开天辟地

to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古[Pán​gǔ] creation myth

辟邪

to ward off evil spirits

Component uses

Sound component in 21 characters (2 verified)

避 壁 臂 闢 譬 劈 僻 霹 璧 癖 噼 擘 薜 嬖 甓 襞 檗 擗 鐾 鷿 鸊

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤek

bek

bì

inner coffin

*[N]-pek

bjiek

bì

law, rule; lawful

*pek

pjiek

bì

ruler, prince


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5217% of movies

3243rd most common character in movies

2140th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

辟

Traditional

辟闢

Unicode

U+8F9F

Shuowen

“辟，法也。从卩，从辛，節制其辠也；从口，用法者也。”


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