pì
out-of-the-way
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 辟 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 僻
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
remote | ||
low | ||
antisocial | ||
lonely | ||
a remote and desolate place |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰek | phjiek | pì | perverse |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.2036% of movies
2767th most common character in movies
2827th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+50FB |
Shuowen | “僻，避也。从人，辟聲。《詩》曰：‘宛如左僻。’一曰从旁牽也。” |
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