璧
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jade annulus
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 玉 +13
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 璧
- Common rank
- #2,405
- Unicode
- U+74A7
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 璧
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中西合璧 | harmonious combination of Chinese and Western elements (idiom) | |
| 璧山区 | Bishan, a district of Chongqing 重慶|重庆[Chong2 qing4] | |
| 珠流璧转 | lit. pearl flows, jade moves on (idiom); fig. the passage of time; water under the bridge | |
| 珠联璧合 | string of pearl and jade (idiom); ideal combination; perfect pair | |
| 完璧之身 | undefiled (girl); virgin; (of computer system) clean; uncorrupted | |
| 灵璧县 | Lingbi, a county in Suzhou City 宿州市[Su4 zhou1 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 怀璧其罪 | lit. treasuring a jade ring becomes a crime (idiom); to get into trouble on account of a c… | |
| 璧山 | see 璧山區|璧山区[Bi4 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 合璧 | to match harmoniously | |
| 连璧 | to join jade annuli; fig. to combine two good things | |
| 璧玉 | jade disk with a hole in the center | |
| 白璧无瑕 | impeccable moral integrity | |
| 灵璧 | see 靈璧縣|灵璧县[Ling2 bi4 Xian4] | |
| 完璧归赵 | lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao (idiom); fig. to return something intact to its ri… | |
| 白璧微瑕 | a slight blemish | |
| 璧还 | return (a borrowed object) with thanks; decline (a gift) with thanks | |
| 璧谢 | decline (a gift) with thanks | |
| 完璧 | flawless piece of jade; (fig.) perfect person or thing; virgin; to return sth intact | |
| 红璧玺 | topaz | |
| 拱璧 | a flat round jade ornament with a hole at the center; fig. a treasure |
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 | |
| 壁 | partition, wall; rampart | |
| 避 | to avoid, to turn away; to escape, to hide | |
| 臂 | arm | |
| 劈 | to chop, to cut apart; to split | |
| 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 |