Chinese symbol for “cleave”
劈开
pī kāi
Traditional: 劈開
to cleave; to split open; to spread open (fingers, legs)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cleave is 劈开 (pī kāi), defined as: to cleave; to split open; to spread open (fingers, legs).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “cleave”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 劈开.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 劈叉 | pǐ chà | the splits (move in dancing); to do the splits |
| 劈柴 | pī chái | to chop firewood; to split logs |
| 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 |
| 开始 (開始) | kāi shǐ | to begin; to start; beginning; start |
| 开发 (開發) | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 离开 (離開) | lí kāi | to depart; to leave |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cleave”.
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.