Chinese Character Wiki

毗

pí

help

Phonosemantic compound. 田 represents the meaning and 比 represents the sound. Simplified form of 毘.

Components
田 meaning component

田  Meaning component

tián

  

field

比 sound component

比  Sound component

bǐ, bī, bì

  

to compare

Evolution

毗 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
毗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
毗 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
毗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

毗  

pí

help, assist; connect, adjoin; to adjoin; to border on

毗 (毘) 

pí

variant of 毗[pí]

Most common words with 毗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

毗邻

bordering

毗

to adjoin

毗连

to adjoin

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ij

bjij

pí

assist; boastful


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3441st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6BD7

Shuowen

“，人臍也。从囟，囟，取氣通也；从比聲。”


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