Chinese Character Wiki

譬

pì

metaphor

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 辟 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

辟 sound component

辟  Sound component

pì, bì

  

law

Evolution

譬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
譬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

譬  

pì

metaphor, simile, example; to give an example

Most common words with 譬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

譬如

for example

譬

to give an example

譬喻

analogy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰek-s

phjieH

pì

example


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2441st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Unicode

U+8B6C

Shuowen

“譬，諭也。从言，辟聲。”


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