壁

See also 璧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 辟 – an earthen wall.

Han character

壁 (radical 32 土+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸十土 (SJG), four-corner 7010₄, composition ⿱辟土)

1. partition wall
2. walls of house

See also

• 璧

References

• KangXi: page 240, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5516
• Dae Jaweon: page 479, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 494, character 8
• Unihan data for U+58C1

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Cantonese

Hanzi

壁 (jyutping bek3, bik1, bik3, Yale bek3, bik1, bik3)

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Japanese

Kanji

壁 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: へき (heki)
• Kun: かべ (kabe)

Noun

壁 (hiragana かべ, romaji kabe)

1. wall, barrier

Coordinate terms

• 床 (ゆか, yuka, “floor”)
• 天井 (てんじょう, tenjō, “ceiling”)

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Korean

Hanja

壁 (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune-Reischauer pyŏk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

壁 (pinyin bì (bi4), yǒng (yong3), Wade-Giles pi⁴, yung³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壁 (bích, bệch, bịch, vách)