辟
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penal law; variant of 闢|辟[pi4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 辛 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 辟
- Common rank
- #2,213
- Unicode
- U+8F9F
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 辟
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开天辟地 | (lit.) to split heaven and earth apart (refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古[Pan2 gu3] creation myth)… | |
| 开辟者 | pioneer; groundbreaker | |
| 辟室密谈 | to discuss behind closed doors | |
| 大辟 | (literary) death sentence; decapitation | |
| 鞭辟入里 | penetrated; trenchant; incisive | |
| 开辟 | to open up; to create; to establish | |
| 精辟 | clear and penetrating (e.g. analysis); incisive; insightful | |
| 复辟 | to recover one's power or authority; restoration (of a past regime) | |
| 辟室 | lit. to open a room; fig. to settle in a quiet room; behind closed doors | |
| 辟建 | (Tw) to construct (on undeveloped land) | |
| 张勋复辟 | Manchu Restoration of 1917, an attempt by General Zhang Xun 張勳|张勋[Zhang1 Xun1] to reinstat… | |
| 警辟 | profound, thorough and moving | |
| 辟谷 | (Taoism) to abstain from eating cereals; to fast; also pr. [pi4gu3] | |
| 丁巳复辟 | see 張勳復辟|张勋复辟[Zhang1 Xun1 Fu4 bi4] | |
| 透辟 | penetrating; incisive | |
| 独辟蹊径 | to blaze a new trail (idiom); to display originality | |
| 辟邪 | to ward off evil spirits; mythical lion-like animal that wards off evil (also called 貔貅[pi… | |
| 攘辟 | to stand off; to make way | |
| 辟雍砚 | ink slab or ink stone of celadon or white porcelain with unglazed surface | |
| 另辟蹊径 | to take an alternate route (idiom); to find an alternative; to take a different approach; … |
Sound family
These characters use 辟 as their sound component — 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 | |
| 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 |