Chinese symbol for “hack”
劈
pī
to hack; to chop; to split open; (of lightning) to strike
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hack is 劈 (pī), defined as: to hack; to chop; to split open; (of lightning) to strike.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “hack”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黑 | hēi | black; dark |
| 骇 (駭) | hài | to astonish; to startle |
| 锉 (剉) | cuò | (literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut |
| 斫 | zhuó | to chop; to hack |
| 击刺 (擊刺) | jī cì | to stab; to hack |
Related words
Other words that share a character 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “hack”.
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.