闢

See also 辟

Translingual

simpl.		辟
trad.		辟闢

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 門 + semantic 辟

Han character

闢 (radical 169 門+13, 21 strokes, cangjie input 日弓尸口十 (ANSRJ), four-corner 7764₁)

1. open
2. settle, develop, open up

Synonyms

• 開

References

• KangXi: page 1342, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41500
• Dae Jaweon: page 1847, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4320, character 12
• Unihan data for U+95E2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

闢 (Yale pik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

闢

Readings

• On: へき (heki), びゃく (byaku)
• Kun: ひらく (hiraku)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

闢 (pinyin pì (pi4), Wade-Giles p'i⁴)