筆 — Chinese character
筆
bǐ
pen, pencil, writing brush; to compose, to write; Hanzi stroke
- Pinyin
- bǐ
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 聿
- Formation
- ideographic — A bamboo rod ⺮ used as a pencil 聿
- Simplified
- 笔
- Japanese
- 筆 as a kanji
筆 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 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.