Chinese Character Wiki
別

bié

separate

Depicts a knife (刂) cutting meat off of a bone （冎）.

Components
冎 iconic component

冎  Iconic component

guǎ

  

bone

刂 iconic component

刂  Iconic component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

別 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
別 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
別 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
別 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

别 (別) 

bié

separate, other; do not; to leave; to depart; to separate; to distinguish; to classify; other; another; don't ...!; to pin; to stick (sth) in

别 (別) 

Bié

surname Bie

Most common words with 別
Freq.
Word
Meaning

别

to leave

别人

others

特别

especially

分别

to distinguish

别的

else

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-pret

bjet

bié

be separated (intr.)

*pret

pjet

bié

separate (tr.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.8238% of movies

79th most common character in movies

222nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Simplified

别

Unicode

U+5225

Shuowen

“，分解也。从冎，从刀。”


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