Chinese Character Wiki
避

bì

avoid

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

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

辟 sound component

辟  Sound component

pì, bì

  

law

Evolution

避 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

避  

bì

avoid; turn aside; escape; hide; to avoid; to shun; to flee; to escape; to keep away from; to leave; to hide from

Most common words with 避
Freq.
Word
Meaning

避免

to avert

逃避

to escape

避

to avoid

回避

to shun

避开

to avoid

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ek-s

bjieH

bì

avoid


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 37.1937% of movies

1083rd most common character in movies

991st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+907F

Shuowen

“避，回也。从辵，辟聲。”


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