匕 — Chinese character
匕
bǐ
spoon, ladle; knife, dirk
- Pinyin
- bǐ
- Radical
- 21 ⼔ (Spoon)
- Strokes
- 2
- Components
- 乚 丿
- Formation
- pictographic — A spoon
- Japanese
- 匕 as a kanji
Common words with 匕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 匕首 | bǐ shǒu | dagger |
| 图穷匕见 (圖窮匕見) | tú qióng bǐ xiàn | (lit.) the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴 |
English words written with 匕
匕 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.