law

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
門 meaning component

  Meaning component

mén

  

door

辟 sound component

  Sound component

  

law

Evolution

闢 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
闢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
闢 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𰿾 () 

open; settle, develop, open up

() 

to open (a door); to open up (for development); to dispel; to refute; to repudiate

Most common words with 闢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

开辟

to open up

to dispel

精辟

incisive

开天辟地

to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古[Pán​gǔ] creation myth

辟邪

to ward off evil spirits

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5217% of movies

3243rd most common character in movies

2140th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+95E2

Shuowen

“闢,開也。从門,辟聲。,《虞書》曰:‘闢四門’,从門,从廾。”


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