吡
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used as phonetic bi- or pi-
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 口 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 吡
- Common rank
- #3,375
- Unicode
- U+5421
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Formation & memory
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Words with 吡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吡拉西坦 | (pharmacology) (loanword) piracetam (C6H10N2O2), a nootropic | |
| 乙酰胺吡咯烷酮 | (pharmacology) piracetam (C6H10N2O2), a nootropic | |
| 吡唑 | pyrazole (chemistry) (loanword) | |
| 吡咯 | pyrrole (C4H5N) (loanword) | |
| 吡啶 | pyridine C5H5N (loanword) | |
| 吡嗪 | pyrazine (chemistry) (loanword) | |
| 吡喃 | pyran (chemistry) (loanword) | |
| 吡叻 | Perak (state of Malaysia) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 比 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 比 sound part | to compare, liken; comparison; than | |
| 批 | comment, criticism; batch, lot; wholesale | |
| 屁 | to break wind, to fart; the buttocks | |
| 毕 | to finish, to conclude, to end; completed | |
| 庇 | cover, shield; to protect, to shelter; to harbor | |
| 毙 | to kill; to die a violent death | |
| 琵 | a guitar-like instrument (1) | |
| 毗 | to aid, to help; to adjoin, to connect | |
| 秕 | chaff, husk | |
| 蚍 | mussels, shellfish | |
| 蓖 | the castor-oil plant; Ricinus commumis | |
| 砒 | arsenic | |
| 妣 | one's deceased mother | |
| 枇 | loquat tree | |
| 纰 | carelessness; error, mistake; spoiled silk | |
| 貔 | fox, leopard, panther | |
| 仳 | separate, part company | |
| 舭 | bilge | |
| 芘 | common mallow; Malva sylvestris |