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Chinese symbol for “creases”

襞
bì
creases; folds or pleats in a garment

The closest CC-CEDICT match for creases is 襞 (bì), defined as: creases; folds or pleats in a garment.

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Characters and stroke order

襞 bì
pleat, fold, crease
radical 145 ⾐ · 19 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 襞.

WordPinyinMeaning
棕榈襞 (棕櫚襞)zōng lǘ bì(anatomy) the palmate folds of the cervical canal; plicae palmatae

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.