屁
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fart; flatulence; nonsense; (usu. in the negative) what; (not) a damn thing
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 尸 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 屁
- Common rank
- #1,445
- Unicode
- U+5C41
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Formation & memory
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Words with 屁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 屁眼儿 | erhua variant of 屁眼[pi4 yan3] | |
| 狗屁不通 | (idiom) (of writing, speech etc) incoherent; nonsensical | |
| 放水屁 | (coll.) to shart | |
| 马屁精 | sycophant; toady; bootlicker | |
| 有屁快放 | spit it out!; out with it! | |
| 脱裤子放屁 | lit. to take off trousers to fart; fig. to do something absolutely unnecessary; fig. to ma… | |
| 放屁虫 | stinkbug | |
| 马屁 | horse hindquarters; flattery; boot-licking | |
| 拍拍屁股走人 | to make oneself scarce; to slip away; to take French leave | |
| 屁事 | (vulgar) trifling matter; mere trifle; goddamn thing; goddamn business | |
| 打屁 | (coll.) to fart; (coll.) to shoot the breeze | |
| 屁眼 | anus | |
| 打屁股 | to spank sb's bottom | |
| 热脸贴冷屁股 | to show warm feelings but meet with cold rebuke (idiom); to be snubbed despite showing goo… | |
| 屁股眼 | anus | |
| 屁民 | (slang) shitizen; commoner; hoi polloi | |
| 黑屁 | (slang) bullshit | |
| 屁股决定脑袋 | lit. the butt governs the head (idiom); fig. where one stands depends on where one sits; o… | |
| 拍马屁 | to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking | |
| 屁话 | bullshit; nonsense |
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 | |
| 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) | |
| 吡 | to blame | |
| 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 |