HSK 6 · Verbs

劈 pī “to split” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 劈 means

  1. to split
  2. to chop
  3. to hack
  4. to split open
  5. (of lightning) to strike

How to say 劈

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale劈pī1st tone, high and level

劈 in a sentence

  1. 我被雷劈了。

    Wǒ bèi léi pī le.

    I was struck by lightning.

    Sentence #5574631 from Tatoeba

How 劈 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 劈 (pī) with each of its parts in a different colour
劈pīto hack
  • 辟law · bìSound part
  • 刀knife · dāoMeaning part

刀 hints at the meaning (knife); 辟 (bì) hints at the sound. Compare it with pī.

How to write 劈

劈 15 strokes

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

Words related to 劈

More words: Common Verbs

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FAQs

劈 (pī) means “to split” or “to chop”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pī: pī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 劈 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 劈 from the suggestions. Typing pi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
劈 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.