bì
shut
Depicts a door closed shut with horizontal bars.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤi[t]-s | pejH | bì | close (v.); obstruct |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 60.0513% of movies
635th most common character in movies
1267th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9589 |
Shuowen | “閉,闔門也。从門,才所以距門也。” |
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