piē, piě
discard
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 敝 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 撇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to throw | ||
left-handed | ||
to disregard | ||
to cast away | ||
to curl one's lip |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.4210% of movies
2529th most common character in movies
2882nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+6487 |
Shuowen | “撆,別也;一曰擊也。从手,敝聲。” |
Sources
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