毙 · bì
kill; die violent death
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
kill; die violent death
- Mandarin
- bì
- Cantonese
- bai6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6BD9
- Radical
- 比 · 81
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 毙
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
斃
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- bì
- kCantonese
- bai6
- kDefinition
- kill; die violent death
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 81.6
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+6583
- kTGH
- 2013:1878
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bì 0060.160
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bì 019.020