璧

See also 壁

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 辟 + semantic 玉 (“jewel”) – a type of jewel, jade.

Han character

璧 (radical 96 玉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸十一土戈 (SJMGI), four-corner 7010₃)

1. piece of jade with hole in it

See also

• 壁

References

• KangXi: page 742, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21269
• Dae Jaweon: page 1151, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1142, character 16
• Unihan data for U+74A7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

璧 (Yale bik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

璧

Readings

• On: へき (heki)
• Kun: たま (tama)

Compounds

• 完璧 (かんぺき, kanpeki)
• 圭璧 (けいへき, keiheki)
• 双璧 (そうへき, sōheki)

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Korean

Hanja

璧 (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune-Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

璧 (pinyin bì (bi4), Wade-Giles pi⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

璧 (bích, bệch, bịch, vách)