HSK 6 · Body

臂 bì “arm” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 臂 means

  1. arm

How to say 臂

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale臂bì4th tone, falling

臂 in a sentence

  1. 你的手臂疼吗？

    Nǐ de shǒubì téng ma?

    Does your arm hurt?

    Sentence #10733587 from Tatoeba

  2. 举起你的右臂。

    Jǔqǐ nǐ de yòubì.

    Lift your right arm.

    Sentence #6119488 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 他张开双臂，似乎要拥抱这个世界。

    Tā zhāngkāi shuāngbì, sìhū yào yōngbào zhè ge shìjiè.

    He opened his arms wide, as if to embrace the world.

    Sentence #3575599 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 臂 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 臂 (bì) with each of its parts in a different colour
臂bìarm
  • 辟law · bìSound part
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 辟 (bì) hints at the sound. Compare it with bì.

How to write 臂

臂 17 strokes

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臂 (bì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 臂 (bì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 臂

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FAQs

臂 (bì) means “arm”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bì: bì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 臂 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 臂 from the suggestions. Typing bi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
臂 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.