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Mythic Mandarin

披 (pī): meaning and stroke order

披 (pī) means to drape over one's shoulders, to open, to unroll, to split open, to spread out.

披

Simplified
披
Traditional
披 (same form)
Pinyin
pī

Stroke order of 披

披

  • pī to drape over one's shoulders; to open
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 披

  1. pī
    • to drape over one's shoulders
    • to open
    • to unroll
    • to split open
    • to spread out

Radical and structure

披
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 8 strokes · 扌 on the left, 皮 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

披 in our stories

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  • 一根竹杖，一双草鞋，比骑马还轻松，有什么好怕的？披着蓑衣在风雨里走，这就是我的一生。

    yì gēn zhúzhàng yì shuāng cǎoxié bǐ qímǎ hái qīngsōng yǒu shénme hǎo pà de pī zhe suōyī zài fēngyǔ lǐ zǒu zhè jiùshì wǒ de yìshēng

    A bamboo staff and a pair of straw sandals are easier than riding a horse—what is there to fear? Walking through wind and rain in a straw cape: that is my life.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 披

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).