HSK 6 · Places

偏僻 piānpì “remote” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 偏僻 means

  1. remote
  2. out of the way
  3. desolate
  4. far from the city

How to say 偏僻

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale偏piān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale僻pì4th tone, falling

偏僻 in a sentence

  1. 那个位置很偏僻。

    Nà ge wèizhi hěn piānpì.

    That spot is quite remote.

    Sentence #11706409 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 偏僻 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 偏 (piān) with each of its parts in a different colour
偏piānto lean
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 扁flat · biǎnSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 扁 (biǎn) hints at the sound. Compare it with piān.

The character 僻 (pì) with each of its parts in a different colour
僻pìremote
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 辟law · bìSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 辟 (bì) hints at the sound. Compare it with pì.

How to write 偏僻

偏 11 strokes · 僻 15 strokes

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

Words related to 偏僻

Words with 偏

偏差piānchā · deviation偏见piānjiàn · prejudice偏偏piānpiān · unexpectedly

More words: Places & Geography

就近jiùjìn · nearby领土lǐngtǔ · territory畔pàn · bank (of a river or lake)盆地péndì · basin (geography)平原píngyuán · plain坡pō · slope丘陵qiūlíng · hills区域qūyù · area

FAQs

偏僻 (piānpì) means “remote” or “out of the way”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it piānpì: piān with a 1st tone, then pì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 偏僻 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pianpi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 偏僻 from the suggestions. Typing pianpi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
偏僻 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.