彼 — Chinese character
彼
bǐ
that, those, the other
- Pinyin
- bǐ
- Radical
- 60 ⼻ (Step)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 彳 皮
- Formation
- pictophonetic — step; meaning component 彳; sound component 皮
- Japanese
- 彼 as a kanji
Common words with 彼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 彼此 | bǐ cǐ | each other; one another |
| 彼岸 | bǐ àn | the other shore; (Buddhism) paramita |
| 彼时 (彼時) | bǐ shí | at that time |
| 此起彼伏 | cǐ qǐ bǐ fú | up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession; no sooner one subsides, the next arises |
| 知己知彼 | zhī jǐ zhī bǐ | know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孙子兵法 (Sūn zǐ Bīng fǎ)) |
| 顾此失彼 (顧此失彼) | gù cǐ shī bǐ | lit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom); fig. to be unable to manage two or more things at once |
| 不分彼此 | bù fēn bǐ cǐ | to make no distinction between what's one's own and what's another's (idiom); to share everything |
| 此起彼落 | cǐ qǐ bǐ luò | to rise and fall in succession (idiom); repeating continuously |
| 此消彼长 (此消彼長) | cǐ xiāo bǐ zhǎng | (idiom) one declines while the other flourishes; one loses out when the other one gains (as in a trade-off or a zero-sum game) |
| 非此即彼 | fēi cǐ jí bǐ | either this or that; one or the other |
| 彼岸花 | bǐ àn huā | red spider lily (Lycoris radiata); cluster amaryllis |
| 厚此薄彼 | hòu cǐ bó bǐ | to favour one and discriminate against the other |
彼 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 3 · Analects 3 · Art of War 9 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 38 · Zhuangzi 142 · Great Learning 3 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 12
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 38
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 72
- Analects 14.10
- Analects 16.1
- Art of War 3.18
- Art of War 10.2
- Art of War 10.6
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