壁 (bì)

Wall; cliff.

How 壁 is written

Strokes
16
Radical
尸 — corpse
Traditional
壁
Simplified
壁 (unchanged)

Common words using 壁

壁紙 bìzhǐ
wallpaper
赤壁 chìbì
Chibi county level city in Xianning 咸宁市, Hubei; Chibi or Red Cliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Red Cliff of 208
隔壁 gébì
next door; neighbor
壁畫 bìhuà
mural (painting); fresco
壁虎 bìhǔ
gecko; house lizard
戈壁 gēbì
Gobi (desert)
牆壁 qiángbì
wall
面壁 miànbì
to face the wall; to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism); (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc
側壁 cèbì
side wall
半壁江山 bànbìjiāngshān
half of country
呼圖壁 hūtúbì
Hutubi county in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xingjiang
堅壁 jiānbì
to cache; to hide supplies (from the enemy)

壁 in a sentence

牆壁上掛著一張畫。

Qiángbì shàng guà zhe yī zhāng huà.

“There is a picture hanging on the wall.”

How common is 壁?

壁 is the 1,378th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.6% of all running text.

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