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逼

bī

compel

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 畐 represents the sound. Simplified form of 偪.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

畐 sound component

畐  Sound component

fú

  

to fill

Evolution

逼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
逼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
逼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
逼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

逼  

bī

compel, pressure, force; bother; to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄[bī]

逼 (偪) 

bī

variant of 逼[bī]; to pressure

Most common words with 逼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

逼

to compel

逼近

to close in on

逼迫

to force

逼真

lifelike

逼供

to extort a confession

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*prək

pik

bī

urge, press


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 31.4272% of movies

1247th most common character in movies

1559th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+903C

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“逼，近也。从辵，畐聲。”


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