Chinese Character Wiki
閉

bì

shut

Depicts a door closed shut with horizontal bars.

Components
門 iconic component

門  Iconic component

mén

  

door

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts horizontal bars used to keep the door shut.

Evolution

閉 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
閉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

闭 (閉) 

bì

shut, close; obstruct, block up; to close; to stop up; to shut; to obstruct

Most common words with 閉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

闭

to close

关闭

to close

封闭

to seal

闭上

to close

闭幕

the curtain falls

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤi[t]-s

pejH

bì

close (v.); obstruct


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 60.0513% of movies

635th most common character in movies

1267th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

闭

Unicode

U+9589

Shuowen

“閉，闔門也。从門，才所以距門也。”


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