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Mythic Mandarin

劈 (pī): meaning and stroke order

劈 (pī) means to hack, to chop, to split open, (of lightning) to strike, to split in two, to divide.

劈

Simplified
劈
Traditional
劈 (same form)
Pinyin
pī · pǐ

Stroke order of 劈

劈

  • pī to hack; to chop
  • pǐ to split in two; to divide
  • 15 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 劈

  1. pī
    • to hack
    • to chop
    • to split open
    • (of lightning) to strike
  2. pǐ
    • to split in two
    • to divide

Radical and structure

劈
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 15 strokes · 辟 on top, 刀 below

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.

劈 in our stories

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  • 沉香回到华山，打败了舅舅二郎神，然后举起神斧，用尽全身的力气向山劈下去。

    Chénxiāng huídào Huà Shān dǎbài le jiùjiu Èrláng Shén ránhòu jǔ qǐ shén fǔ yòngjìn quánshēn de lìqi xiàng shān pī xiàqu

    Chenxiang returned to Mount Hua, defeated his uncle Erlang Shen, then raised the axe and brought it down on the mountain with all his strength.

    From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5

  • 他抓起一把巨大的斧头，朝眼前的黑暗用力一劈，只听一声巨响，鸡蛋裂成了两半。

    tā zhuā qǐ yì bǎ jùdà de fǔtou cháo yǎnqián de hēi'àn yònglì yì pī zhǐ tīng yì shēng jùxiǎng jīdàn liè chéng le liǎng bàn

    He seized a huge axe and swung it hard into the darkness before him; with a tremendous crash the egg split in two.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 劈

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).