The 辟 family
辟 · pì · bì king; monarch · ㄆㄧˋ — penal law
Know 辟 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 避、壁、臂、癖. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 避bì · ㄅㄧˋ部首 辶 走之旁 · walkto avoid; to shun66%
- 壁bì · ㄅㄧˋ部首 土 · earthwall; rampart66%
- 臂bì · ㄅㄧˋ部首 肉 · meatarm66%
- 癖pǐ · ㄆㄧˇ部首 疒 病字頭 · sickhabit; hobby79%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 辟 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 辟 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 69%.
Words this family builds
- 避免
- 手臂
- 逃避
- 隔壁
- 避開
- 避難
- 躲避
- 牆壁
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