Chinese Character Wiki

貔

pí

fox

Components
豸 meaning component

豸  Meaning component

zhì

  

(dhole), beast

beast

囟 unknown component

囟  Unknown component

xìn

  

fontanel

比 sound component

比  Sound component

bǐ, bī, bì

  

to compare

Evolution

貔 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
貔 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
貔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
貔 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
貔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

貔  

pí

fox, leopard, panther; see 貔貅[pí​xiū], composite mythical animal (originally 貔 was the male)

Most common words with 貔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

貔貅

also written 辟邪

貔

also written 辟邪

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ij

bjij

pí

kind of wild cat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6414th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+8C94

Shuowen

“貔，豹屬，出貉國。从豸，聲。《詩》曰：‘獻其貔皮’，《周書》曰：‘如虎如貔’。貔，猛獸。豼，或从比。”


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