庇
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to protect; cover; shelter; hide or harbor
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 广 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 庇
- Common rank
- #2,582
- Unicode
- U+5E87
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 庇
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庇西特拉图 | Pisistratus (-528 BC), tyrant (ruler) of Athens at different times between 561 BC and 528 … | |
| 罗伯斯庇尔 | Robespierre (name); Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French r… | |
| 欧里庇得斯 | Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc | |
| 大西庇阿 | Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC), Roman general and statesman | |
| 外交庇护 | diplomatic asylum | |
| 政治庇护 | political asylum | |
| 庇护所 | shelter; refuge; sanctuary | |
| 朱庇特 | Jupiter (Roman god) | |
| 亚庇 | Kota Kinabalu (capital of Sabah state, Malaysia) | |
| 庇古 | Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), British economist | |
| 包庇 | to shield; to harbor; to cover up | |
| 托庇 | to rely on sb for protection | |
| 庇护 | to shelter; to protect; to provide refuge; (law) asylum | |
| 庇荫 | to give shade (of a tree etc); to shield | |
| 袒庇 | to shield; to harbor; to cover up | |
| 庇佑 | to bless; to protect; protection (esp. divine) | |
| 庇祐 | to bless; to protect; protection (esp. divine); also written 庇佑[bi4 you4] |
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 | |
| 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 |