癖
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habit; hobby
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 疒 +13
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 癖
- Common rank
- #2,488
- Unicode
- U+7656
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 癖
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 异食癖 | pica (medicine) | |
| 异装癖 | transvestism | |
| 精神洁癖 | moral fastidiousness; psychological obsession with maintaining moral purity in thoughts, r… | |
| 断袖之癖 | lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Wes… | |
| 露阴癖 | indecent exposure; flashing | |
| 恋物癖 | (sexual) fetishism | |
| 暴露癖 | exhibitionism | |
| 性癖 | sexual fetish | |
| 恋脚癖 | foot fetish | |
| 恋足癖 | foot fetish | |
| 癖好 | one's passion; one's obsession | |
| 恶癖 | bad habit | |
| 咬甲癖 | onychophagia (nail biting) | |
| 恋童癖 | pedophilia | |
| 恋尸癖 | necrophilia | |
| 怪癖 | eccentricity; peculiarity; strange hobby | |
| 施虐癖 | sadism (fetish) | |
| 洁癖 | mysophobia; obsession with cleanliness; extreme fastidiousness | |
| 痼癖 | addiction |
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 | |
| 璧 | a jade annulus | |
| 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 |