pī, pǐ
cut apart
Phonosemantic compound. 刀 represents the meaning and 辟 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 劈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to hack | ||
to do the splits | ||
to cleave | ||
showering down | ||
to chop firewood |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.6109% of movies
2824th most common character in movies
2487th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+5288 |
Shuowen | “劈，破也。从刀，辟聲。” |
Sources
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