Chinese symbol for “escarpment”
崖壁
yá bì
escarpment; precipice; cliff
The closest CC-CEDICT match for escarpment is 崖壁 (yá bì), defined as: escarpment; precipice; cliff.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 崖壁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 悬崖 (懸崖) | xuán yá | precipice; overhanging cliff |
| 断崖 (斷崖) | duàn yá | steep cliff; crag |
| 山崖 | shān yá | cliff |
| 悬崖勒马 (懸崖勒馬) | xuán yá lè mǎ | lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom); fig. to act in the nick of time |
| 悬崖峭壁 (懸崖峭壁) | xuán yá qiào bì | (idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces |
| 隔壁 | gé bì | next door; neighbor |
| 墙壁 (牆壁) | qiáng bì | wall |
| 壁画 (壁畫) | bì huà | mural (painting); fresco |
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.