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荜

蓽
bì
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 long pepper (荜茇)
  2. 2 wickerwork fence (variant of 筚)

Examples

HSK 7-9
荜茇在中医里用作药材。
Bìbá zài zhōngyī lǐ yòngzuò yàocái.
Long pepper is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
HSK 7-9
他们荜路蓝缕，白手建起了家。
Tāmen bìlù-lánlǚ, báishǒu jiàn qǐ le jiā.
They built their home from scratch through great hardship.

Tips

usage
荜 mainly appears in 荜茇 (long pepper, a herb) and the idiom 荜路蓝缕 (to endure great hardship to start something), where it stands for a brushwood cart.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
The grass radical, top form of 草, marks 荜 as a plant word, fitting both the herb and the brushwood senses.
phonetic
毕 bì
to finish; complete
Supplies the sound bì exactly. The same phonetic also drives 筚, the wickerwork-fence character 荜 can substitute for.

Stroke Order

荜 bì