辟
Meanings
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- 1.penal law
- 2.variant of 辟[pì]
- 1.(literary) king; monarch
- 2.(literary) (of a sovereign) to summon to official service
- 3.(literary) to avoid (variant of 避[bì])
- 4.(literary) to repel (variant of 避[bì])
- 1.to open (a door)
- 2.to open up (for development)
- 3.to dispel; to refute; to repudiate
- 4.(bound form) penetrating; incisive
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Wiktionary
- 1.to avoid; to evade
- 2.unorthodox
- 3.remote; out of the way
- 4.uncommon; rare
- 5.eccentric; odd; peculiar
- 6.codewords used in certain professions or gangs
- 7.monarch; sovereign
- 8.government official; minister
- 9.to rule; to govern
- 10.crime
- 11.to summon; to appoint to an official position
- 12.to remove; to drive out
- 13.to avoid; to hide; to dodge
- 14.lame in the leg
- 15.law; (specifically) penal code
- 16.to open
- 17.to open up
- 18.to make an analogy
- 19.to thump one's chest
- 20.to show bias; to be partial
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Etymology
In the oracle bone script, it is an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 卩 (“kneeling person”) + 䇂 (“sickle-like tool”) – to administer; to regulate; to punish. 〇 was sometimes added, though its function is disputed: * Lin (1920) suggests that it represents “bind; restrain”. * Luo (1927) suggests that it is the original character for 璧 (OC *peɡ, “jade annulus”) and that 辟 is the early form of 璧, with 〇 as the semantic component and ⿰卩䇂 as the phonetic component. Chi (2010), based on this theory, proposes that 〇 acted as a phonetic component in 辟 instead. * Yu (1999) suggests that it is a decorative component with no meaning. 〇 was later corrupted into 口 or 日. Shuowen interprets 口 as representing the enforcer of the law. In the bronze script from the Warring States period, forms where 䇂 is corrupted to 辛 begin to appear (Chi, 2010). Officially adopted as the simplified form of 闢 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956 due to homophony and shared semantic fields.
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Stroke order
Components
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