別 — Chinese character
別
bié
to separate, to distinguish, to classify; to leave; other; do not, must not
- Pinyin
- bié
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 另 刂
- Formation
- ideographic — To draw boundaries 刂 between classes 另
- Simplified
- 别
- Japanese
- 別 as a kanji
別 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 5 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 2.7
- Analects 19.12
- Mencius 3A.3
- Mencius 3A.4
- Zhuangzi Contingencies
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
- Zhuangzi The Empire
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 32
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.