Chinese Character Wiki

毖

bì

guard against

Components
比 meaning component

比  Meaning component

bǐ, bī, bì

  

to compare

compare

必 sound component

必  Sound component

bì

  

surely

Evolution

毖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
毖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

毖  

bì

guard against, take care; caution; careful; to prevent

Most common words with 毖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

毖

careful

惩前毖后

lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pri[t]-s

pijH

bì

cautious


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5054th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6BD6

Shuowen

“毖，慎也。从比，必聲。”


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