坯
adobe; mud brick; unfired brick, tile or pottery; blank; semifinished product; Taiwan pr. [pei1]
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,896 U+576F
How 坯 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 丕 (phonetic, pī)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 丕
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 丕 (pī) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丕 sound component | pī | great, grand, glorious, distinguished |
| 胚 | pēi | embryo; an unfinished thing |
| 邳 | pī | a department in the state of Lu |
| 苤 | piě | kohlrabi |
| 呸 | pēi | to spit at |
| 狉 | pī | fox cub |
Words containing 坯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美人坯子 | měi rén pī zi | see 美人胚子[mei3 ren2 pei1 zi5] |
| 毛坯房 | máo pī fáng | undecorated residential unit; house or apartment sold without interior finishing |
| 坯子 | pī zi | base; semifinished product; (fig.) the makings of (a talented actor etc) |
| 拉坯 | lā pī | to make ceramics (on a potter's wheel) |
| 硬币坯饼 | yìng bì pī bǐng | coin blank |
| 坯布 | pī bù | unbleached and undyed cloth; gray cloth |
| 土坯 | tǔ pī | mud brick; adobe; unfired earthenware |
| 毛坯 | máo pī | semifinished products |
| 坯料 | pī liào | semifinished materials; CL:塊|块[kuai4] |
| 坯件 | pī jiàn | blank (for a coin etc); breed or strain |
| 坯模 | pī mú | mold |
| 钢坯 | gāng pī | billet (steel industry) |
| 扁坯 | biǎn pī | slab |