Chinese Character Wiki

毙

bì

kill

Phonosemantic compound. 死 represents the meaning and 比 represents the sound. Simplified form of 斃.

Components
死 meaning component

死  Meaning component

sǐ

  

die

比 sound component

比  Sound component

bǐ, bī, bì

  

to compare

Evolution

毙 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
毙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
毙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
毙 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
毙 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

毙 (斃) 

bì

kill; die violent death; to die; to shoot dead; to reject; to fall forward; (suffix) to death

毙 (獘) 

bì

to collapse; variant of 斃|毙[bì]; variant of 獙[bì]

Most common words with 毙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

毙

to die

击毙

to kill

枪毙

to shoot dead

坐以待毙

to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate

毙命

to get killed

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.3385% of movies

2080th most common character in movies

2534th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

斃

Unicode

U+6BD9


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