壁 — Chinese character
壁
bì
partition, wall; rampart
- Pinyin
- bì
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 辟 土
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 辟
- Japanese
- 壁 as a kanji
Common words with 壁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隔壁 | gé bì | next door; neighbor |
| 墙壁 (牆壁) | qiáng bì | wall |
| 壁画 (壁畫) | bì huà | mural (painting); fresco |
| 壁垒 (壁壘) | bì lěi | rampart; barrier |
| 壁纸 (壁紙) | bì zhǐ | wallpaper |
| 壁炉 (壁爐) | bì lú | fireplace |
| 峭壁 | qiào bì | cliff; steep |
| 碰壁 | pèng bì | to hit a wall; (fig.) to hit a brick wall; to hit a snag; to have the door slammed in one's face |
| 壁虎 | bì hǔ | gecko; house lizard |
| 壁球 | bì qiú | squash (sport) |
| 半壁江山 | bàn bì jiāng shān | half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands); vast swathe of territory |
| 绝壁 (絕壁) | jué bì | precipice |
English words written with 壁
壁 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 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.