Chinese symbol for “adobe”
坯
pī
adobe; mud brick; unfired brick, tile or pottery; blank; semifinished product; Taiwan pr. [pei1]
The closest CC-CEDICT match for adobe is 坯 (pī), defined as: adobe; mud brick; unfired brick, tile or pottery; blank; semifinished product; Taiwan pr. [pei1].
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “adobe”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 坯.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 土坯 | tǔ pī | mud brick; adobe |
| 毛坯 | máo pī | semifinished products |
| 钢坯 (鋼坯) | gāng pī | billet (steel industry) |
| 坯料 | pī liào | semifinished materials; 块 (kuài) |
| 坯子 | pī zi | base; semifinished product |
| 坯布 | pī bù | unbleached and undyed cloth; gray cloth |
See also: Japanese symbol for “adobe”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.