Chinese Character Wiki
匹

pǐ, pī

bolt of cloth

Origin unclear. Possibly depicts a folded piece of cloth.

Evolution

匹 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

匹  

pǐ

bolt of cloth; counter for horses; classifier for horses, mules etc; Taiwan pr. [pī]; ordinary person; classifier for cloth: bolt; horsepower

匹  

pī

mate; one of a pair

匹 (疋) 

pǐ

variant of 匹[pǐ]

Most common words with 匹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

匹

Taiwan pr. [pī]

匹配

to match

奥林匹克

Olympic

阿司匹林

aspirin (loanword)

马匹

horse

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰi[t]

phjit

pǐ

one of a pair


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 18.0202% of movies

1445th most common character in movies

1908th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+5339

Shuowen

“匹，四丈也。从八、匸，八揲一匹，八亦聲。”


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