piēpiě

discard

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

敝 sound component

  Sound component

  

worn out

Evolution

撇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
撇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

piē

discard, abandon, throw away; to cast away; to fling aside

 

piě

to throw; to cast; left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy)

Most common words with 撇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to throw

左撇子

left-handed

撇开

to disregard

撇下

to cast away

撇嘴

to curl one's lip

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.4210% of movies

2529th most common character in movies

2882nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6487

Shuowen

“撆,別也;一曰擊也。从手,敝聲。”


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