脾
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spleen
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 肉 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 脾
- Common rank
- #2,848
- Unicode
- U+813E
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
spleen · Heisig RSH #2954
part of the body + 卑 lowly
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 脾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发脾气 | to lose one's temper; to fly into a rage; to throw a tantrum | |
| 牛脾气 | bullheadedness; stubborn | |
| 沁人心脾 | (lit.) to penetrate deeply into the heart (idiom); (fig.) to gladden the heart; to be refr… | |
| 沁入心脾 | see 沁人心脾[qin4 ren2 xin1 pi2] | |
| 不伤脾胃 | lit. doesn't hurt the spleen or the stomach; fig. something that is not critical | |
| 坏脾气 | bad temper | |
| 闹脾气 | to get angry | |
| 脾性 | temperament; disposition | |
| 脾气 | character; temperament; disposition; bad temper; CL:股[gu3] | |
| 耍脾气 | to go into a huff | |
| 脾虚 | depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine) | |
| 脾脏 | spleen | |
| 脾胃 | spleen and stomach (digestive organs in TCM); preferences; one's taste (e.g. in literature… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 卑 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 卑 sound part | humble, low, inferior; to despise | |
| 牌 | card, game piece; placard, signboard, tablet | |
| 碑 | stone tablet; gravestone | |
| 鹎 | bulbul, songbird; Pycnonotidae | |
| 啤 | beer | |
| 俾 | so that, in order that; to cause | |
| 稗 | darnels, weeds; small, insignificant | |
| 郫 | place name | |
| 蜱 | tick, mite | |
| 捭 | to open up, to spread out | |
| 睥 | to glare at; to look askance | |
| 埤 | to add, to increase; to attach; fence, wall | |
| 萆 | castor oil; the castor-oil plant | |
| 陴 | parapet; city wall |