壁
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wall; rampart
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 土 +13
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 壁
- Common rank
- #890
- Unicode
- U+58C1
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 壁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 半壁河山 | see 半壁江山[ban4 bi4 jiang1 shan1] | |
| 半壁江山 | half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands); vast swathe … | |
| 面壁思过 | to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds; to stand in the corner (punishment); (fi… | |
| 壁网球 | jai alai (sports) | |
| 破壁机 | high-speed blender | |
| 一壁 | at the same time; simultaneously; while | |
| 体壁 | integument (biology) | |
| 面壁 | to face the wall; to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism); (fig.) to devote onesel… | |
| 呼图壁县 | Hutubi, a county in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4… | |
| 赤壁之战 | Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 qu1] of Huan… | |
| 后壁 | Houbi, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan | |
| 壁报 | wall newspaper | |
| 壁球 | squash (sport) | |
| 家徒四壁 | lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom); fig. very poor; wretched | |
| 子宫壁 | wall of the uterus | |
| 间壁 | next door; partition wall | |
| 板壁 | wooden partition | |
| 赤壁市 | Chibi, a county-level city in Xianning City 咸寧市|咸宁市[Xian2 ning2 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 红翅旋壁雀 | (bird species of China) wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) | |
| 小赤壁 | Little Red Cliff, nickname of Bitan 碧潭[Bi4 tan2], Xindian, Taibei county, Taiwan |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 辟 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辟 sound part | law, rule; to open up, to develop | |
| 避 | to avoid, to turn away; to escape, to hide | |
| 臂 | arm | |
| 劈 | to chop, to cut apart; to split | |
| 璧 | a jade annulus | |
| 癖 | craving, addiction; habit, hobby; indigestion | |
| 僻 | out-of-the-way, remote; unorthodox | |
| 霹 | thunderclap, crashing thunder | |
| 擘 | thumb; to rip, to tear; to split, to analyze | |
| 譬 | example; metaphor, simile | |
| 噼 | onomatopoetic, the sound of something cracking | |
| 襞 | pleat, fold, crease | |
| 檗 | tree | |
| 嬖 | a favorite, a minion; to show favor; to enjoy the favor of | |
| 擗 | to beat the breast | |
| 甓 | bricks, glazed tiles | |
| 薜 | evergreen shrub; Ligusticum | |
| 鐾 | a flat iron cooking-plate for cakes |