劈 — Chinese character
劈
pī
to chop, to cut apart; to split
- Pinyin
- pī
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 辟 刀
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刀; sound component 辟
- Japanese
- 劈 as a kanji
Common words with 劈
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 劈开 (劈開) | pī kāi | to cleave; to split open |
| 劈叉 | pǐ chà | the splits (move in dancing); to do the splits |
| 劈柴 | pī chái | to chop firewood; to split logs |
| 劈柴 | pǐ chai | chopped wood; firewood |
| 劈头 (劈頭) | pī tóu | straight away; right off the bat; right on the head; right in the face |
| 劈啪 | pī pā | (onom.) for crack, slap, clap, clatter etc |
| 劈裂 | pī liè | to split open; to cleave |
| 劈头盖脸 (劈頭蓋臉) | pī tóu gài liǎn | lit. splitting the head and covering the face (idiom); fig. pelting (with rain etc); showering down |
| 劈里啪啦 | pī li pā lā | variant of 噼里啪啦 (pī li pā lā) |
| 劈挂拳 (劈掛拳) | pī guà quán | Piguaquan "Chop-Hanging Fist" (Chinese Martial Art) |
| 劈哩啪啦 | pī li pā lā | variant of 噼里啪啦 (pī li pā lā) |
| 劈面 | pī miàn | right in the face |
English words written with 劈
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.