鼻
nose
14 strokes
Dict coverage rank #808 U+9F3B
How 鼻 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
自 (semantic, “self”) + 畀 (phonetic, bì)
How to remember it
nose · Heisig RSH #617
two hands + nostrils + 脑 brain
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 畀
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 畀 (bì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 畀 sound component | bì | to give |
| 痹 | bì | numbess, paralysis |
| 箅 | bì | (bound form) bamboo grid for steaming food |
| 淠 | pì | luxuriant; water lily |
Words containing 鼻
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大红鼻子 | dà hóng bí zi | rhinophyma (red nose, often related to rosacea or excessive alcohol); brandy nose |
| 白鼻子 | bái bí zi | cunning or sly person |
| 白鼻心 | bái bí xīn | (Tw) masked palm civet (Paguma larvata) |
| 老鼻子 | lǎo bí zi | many |
| 一鼻孔出气 | yī bí kǒng chū qì | lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thi… |
| 后鼻音 | hòu bí yīn | velar nasal; consonant ng or ŋ produced in the nose with the back of the tongue against th… |
| 鼻出血 | bí chū xuè | nosebleed |
| 长鼻目 | cháng bí mù | order Proboscidea (elephants and mammoths) |
| 前鼻音 | qián bí yīn | alveolar nasal; consonant n produced in the nose with the tongue against the alveolar ridg… |
| 牛鼻子 | niú bí zi | key point; crux; (old) Daoist (facetious) |
| 鼻牛儿 | bí niú r | hardened mucus in nostrils |
| 流鼻血 | liú bí xiě | to bleed from the nose; (fig.) to be sexually aroused |
| 鼻病毒 | bí bìng dú | rhinovirus (common cold virus) |
| 鼻子 | bí zi | nose; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1] |
| 鼻水 | bí shuǐ | nasal mucus; snivel |
| 鼻头 | bí tóu | tip of the nose; (dialect) nose |
| 鼻儿 | bí r | eye; a hole in an implement or utensil for insertion |
| 下鼻甲 | xià bí jiǎ | inferior nasal conchae |
| 开山鼻祖 | kāi shān bí zǔ | founder |
| 口鼻 | kǒu bí | mouth and nose; (an animal's) snout |