Chinese Character Wiki

庇

bì

cover

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 比 represents the sound.

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

比 sound component

比  Sound component

bǐ, bī, bì

  

to compare

Evolution

庇 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
庇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
庇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

庇  

bì

cover, shield, shelter, protect; to protect; cover; shelter; hide or harbor

Most common words with 庇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

庇护

asylum

包庇

to shield

庇

cover

庇佑

to bless

庇荫

to shield

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pij

pjij

bì

cover; protect

*pij-s

pjijH

bì

cover; protect


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.2127% of movies

2480th most common character in movies

2793rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5E87

Shuowen

“庇，蔭也。从广，比聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License