辟 · pì
law, rule; open up, develop
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
law, rule; open up, develop
- Mandarin
- pì
- Cantonese
- pik1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 辟 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ヒ ヘキ ビャク ビ ハク ヒャク ヘイ ミ きみ ひらく めすKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 벽
- Personal-name Hanja (N)
- 피
- KS X 1002 (1)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8F9F
- Radical
- 辛 · 160
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 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 辟
Character connections
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History & distinctions
Related forms
闢
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- bjiek · 房益 反切 · #3659
- Middle Chinese
- pjiek · 必益 反切 · #3662
- Middle Chinese
- phjiek · 芳辟 反切 · #3663
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 19042 · bjiek = 梗開三入清並 · pjiek = 梗開三入清幫 · phjiek = 梗開三入清滂
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- pì
- kCantonese
- pik1
- kDefinition
- law, rule; open up, develop
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 160.6
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8F9F U+95E2
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+8F9F
- kTGH
- 2013:3037
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- bì,pì,mǐ 64037.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bì 0061.100 · pī 0866.050 · pì 0870.150
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bì 019.200 · pì 282.040,282.050
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- pì(68) bì(27)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- bì粵pik1 pì粵pik1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 房益 必益 芳辟
- Kangxi positions
- 1251.060
- Guangyun positions
- 519.23 519.42 519.50
- GSR references
- 0853a
- Cangjie
- SRYTJ
- Four-corner
- 7064.1