壁
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wall; rampart
16 strokes
Dict coverage rank #890 U+58C1
How 壁 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 辟 (phonetic, pì)
How to remember it
partition · Heisig RSH #1186
hot sauce + ground
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 辟
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 辟 (pì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辟 sound component | pì | law, rule; to open up, to develop |
| 避 | bì | to avoid, to turn away; to escape, to hide |
| 臂 | bì | arm |
| 劈 | pī | to chop, to cut apart; to split |
| 璧 | bì | a jade annulus |
| 癖 | pǐ | craving, addiction; habit, hobby; indigestion |
| 僻 | pì | out-of-the-way, remote; unorthodox |
| 霹 | pī | thunderclap, crashing thunder |
| 擘 | bò | thumb; to rip, to tear; to split, to analyze |
| 譬 | pì | example; metaphor, simile |
| 噼 | pī | onomatopoetic, the sound of something cracking |
| 襞 | bì | pleat, fold, crease |
| 檗 | bò | tree |
| 嬖 | bì | a favorite, a minion; to show favor; to enjoy the favor of |
| 擗 | pǐ | to beat the breast |
| 甓 | pì | bricks, glazed tiles |
| 薜 | bì | evergreen shrub; Ligusticum |
| 鐾 | bèi | a flat iron cooking-plate for cakes |
Words containing 壁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 半壁河山 | bàn bì hé shān | see 半壁江山[ban4 bi4 jiang1 shan1] |
| 半壁江山 | bàn bì jiāng shān | half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands); vast swathe … |
| 面壁思过 | miàn bì sī guò | to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds; to stand in the corner (punishment); (fi… |
| 壁网球 | bì wǎng qiú | jai alai (sports) |
| 破壁机 | pò bì jī | high-speed blender |
| 一壁 | yī bì | at the same time; simultaneously; while |
| 体壁 | tǐ bì | integument (biology) |
| 面壁 | miàn bì | to face the wall; to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism); (fig.) to devote onesel… |
| 呼图壁县 | Hū tú bì Xiàn | Hutubi, a county in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4… |
| 赤壁之战 | Chì bì zhī Zhàn | Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 qu1] of Huan… |
| 后壁 | Hòu bì | Houbi, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan |
| 壁报 | bì bào | wall newspaper |
| 壁球 | bì qiú | squash (sport) |
| 家徒四壁 | jiā tú sì bì | lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom); fig. very poor; wretched |
| 子宫壁 | zǐ gōng bì | wall of the uterus |
| 间壁 | jiàn bì | next door; partition wall |
| 板壁 | bǎn bì | wooden partition |
| 赤壁市 | Chì bì Shì | Chibi, a county-level city in Xianning City 咸寧市|咸宁市[Xian2 ning2 Shi4], Hubei |
| 红翅旋壁雀 | hóng chì xuán bì què | (bird species of China) wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) |
| 小赤壁 | Xiǎo chì bì | Little Red Cliff, nickname of Bitan 碧潭[Bi4 tan2], Xindian, Taibei county, Taiwan |