bì
wall
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 辟 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.pˤek | pek | bì | house wall |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 18.6449% of movies
1590th most common character in movies
1380th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+58C1 |
Shuowen | “壁，垣也。从土，辟聲。” |
Sources
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