坯
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adobe; mud brick; unfired brick, tile or pottery; blank; semifinished product; Taiwan pr. [pei1]
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 土 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 坯
- Common rank
- #2,896
- Unicode
- U+576F
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Formation & memory
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Words with 坯
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美人坯子 | see 美人胚子[mei3 ren2 pei1 zi5] | |
| 毛坯房 | undecorated residential unit; house or apartment sold without interior finishing | |
| 坯子 | base; semifinished product; (fig.) the makings of (a talented actor etc) | |
| 拉坯 | to make ceramics (on a potter's wheel) | |
| 硬币坯饼 | coin blank | |
| 坯布 | unbleached and undyed cloth; gray cloth | |
| 土坯 | mud brick; adobe; unfired earthenware | |
| 毛坯 | semifinished products | |
| 坯料 | semifinished materials; CL:塊|块[kuai4] | |
| 坯件 | blank (for a coin etc); breed or strain | |
| 坯模 | mold | |
| 钢坯 | billet (steel industry) | |
| 扁坯 | slab |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 丕 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丕 sound part | great, grand, glorious, distinguished | |
| 胚 | embryo; an unfinished thing | |
| 邳 | a department in the state of Lu | |
| 苤 | kohlrabi | |
| 呸 | to spit at | |
| 狉 | fox cub |