辟

See also 闢

Translingual

simpl.		辟
trad.		辟闢

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 卩 + 口 + 辛 – a beheading (口 is the head), the law. Compare 県.

Exists as traditional character, but also Simplified from 闢 (門 → [[ ]]) (elimination of 門).

Han character

辟 (radical 160 辛+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸口卜廿十 (SRYTJ), four-corner 7064₁)

1. law, rule
2. open up, develop

Derived characters

• 璧, 薜, 避, 譬, 𪇊, 臂, 劈, 檗, 糪, 幦, 僻, 襞, 𨐨, 䢃, 廦, 闢, 擘, 嬖, 甓, 繴, 壁

References

• KangXi: page 1251, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38642
• Dae Jaweon: page 1730, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4037, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8F9F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

辟 (Yale bik1, pik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

辟

Readings

• On: へき (heki), ひ (hi), び (bi)
• Kun: きみ (kimi), めす (mesu), ひらく (hiraku)

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Korean

Hanja

辟 (hangeul 피, 벽, revised pi, byeok, McCune-Reischauer p'i, pyŏk, Yale phi, pyek)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

辟 (pinyin pì (pi4), Wade-Giles p'i⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

辟 (tịch, vếch, tích, bích, thịch)