彼 (bǐ)
that / the other / each other
How 彼 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 彳 — step
- Traditional
- 彼
- Simplified
- 彼 (unchanged)
Components
- 彳 step
- 皮 skin
Common words using 彼
- 彼此 bǐcǐ
- each other; one another
- 彼岸 bǐàn
- the other shore; paramita
- 此起彼伏 cǐqǐbǐfú
- up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession; no sooner one subsides, the next arises; repeating continuously
- 不分彼此 bùfēnbǐcǐ
- make no distinction between what's one's own and what's another's; share everything; be on very intimate terms
- 厚此薄彼 hòucǐbóbǐ
- to favour one and discriminate against the other
- 彼得堡 bǐdébǎo
- Petersburg (place name); Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 知己知彼 zhījǐzhībǐ
- Know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's Art of War 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3])
- 知彼知己 zhībǐzhījǐ
- to know the enemy and know oneself (idiom, from Sunzi's Art of War)
- 聖彼得 shèngbǐdé
- Saint Peter
- 聖彼得堡 shèngbǐdébǎo
- Saint Petersburg (city in Russia)
- 蒙彼利埃 méngbǐlìāi
- Montpellier (French town)
彼 in a sentence
我們要彼此幫忙，才能把事情做好。
Wǒmen yào bǐcǐ bāngmáng, cáinéng bǎ shìqíng zuòhǎo.
“We need to help each other to get things done well.”
How common is 彼?
彼 is the 1,254th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.5% of all running text.
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