壁

See also: 璧

壁 U+58C1, 壁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58C1 ← 壀 [U+58C0] CJK Unified Ideographs 壂 → [U+58C2]

Translingual

Han character

壁 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸十土 (SJG), four-corner 7010₄, composition ⿱辟土)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 240, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5516
• Dae Jaweon: page 479, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 494, character 8
• Unihan data for U+58C1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		壁
alternative forms		坒 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
嬖	*peːɡs
薜	*beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾	*beːɡs
臂	*peɡs
譬	*pʰeɡs
避	*beɡs
檗	*preːɡ
擘	*preːɡ
糪	*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰	*preːɡ
繴	*breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟	*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧	*peɡ
鐴	*peɡ
躄	*peɡ
襞	*peɡ
僻	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦	*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗	*beɡ
躃	*beɡ
闢	*beɡ
壁	*peːɡ
鼊	*peːɡ
霹	*pʰeːɡ
劈	*pʰeːɡ
澼	*pʰeːɡ
憵	*pʰeːɡ
甓	*beːɡ
鷿	*beːɡ
幦	*mbeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *peːɡ) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ) – an earthen wall.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 壁

1. wall; partition (Classifier: 堵 mn)

   牆壁／墙壁  ―  qiángbì  ―  wall

2. rampart; defensive wall

   壁壘／壁垒  ―  bìlěi  ―  rampart; barrier

3. cliff; precipice

   峭壁  ―  qiàobì  ―  cliff; steep

4. something resembling a wall; lumen; surface
5. (astronomy) (～宿) Wall (Chinese constellation)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 牆 (“wall”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		牆, 壁, 垣墉
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		牆, 牆壁, 牆垣
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	牆
	Taiwan	牆
	Singapore	牆壁
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	牆
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	牆
	Xi'an	牆
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	牆, 壁頭
	Wuhan	牆
	Guilin	牆
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	牆
	Hefei	牆
Cantonese	Guangzhou	牆
	Hong Kong	牆
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	籬壆, 牆
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	牆
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	牆
	Taishan	牆
	Dongguan	籬
	Yangjiang	牆
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	牆
	Hepu (Shatian)	牆
	Beihai	牆
	Beihai (Nankang)	牆
	Beihai (Yingpan)	牆
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	牆壁
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	牆
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	牆
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	牆
	Singapore (Guangfu)	牆
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	牆
	Móng Cái	牆
Gan	Nanchang	牆, 壁
	Pingxiang	牆
Hakka	Meixian	牆, 壁
	Yudu	牆
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	壁
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	壁
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	壁
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	壁
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	壁
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	壁
	Hong Kong	牆, 壁頭
	Senai (Huiyang)	牆
Huizhou	Jixi	牆壁
Jin	Taiyuan	牆
Northern Min	Jian'ou	牆
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	牆, 牆壁, 壁
Southern Min	Xiamen	牆, 壁, 壁堵
	Quanzhou	壁堵
	Zhao'an	壁
	Tainan	牆, 壁, 壁堵
	Penang (Hokkien)	牆, 壁
	Singapore (Hokkien)	牆, 壁
	Manila (Hokkien)	壁
	Medan (Hokkien)	壁
	Chaozhou	牆
	Bangkok (Teochew)	牆
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	牆
	Singapore (Teochew)	壁, 牆
Puxian Min	Putian	牆, 壁
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	牆, 壁
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	牆
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	牆, 壁, 牆壁
	Xianyou	牆
	Xianyou (Fengting)	牆
	Xianyou (Youyang)	牆
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	牆
Wu	Shanghai	牆頭, 牆壁
	Shanghai (Chongming)	牆
	Suzhou	牆頭, 牆壁
	Danyang	牆頭
	Hangzhou	牆頭
	Ningbo	牆壁
	Wenzhou	屏牆, 牆
Xiang	Changsha	牆壁, 牆, 壁
	Xiangxiang	牆
	Loudi	壁頭
	Shuangfeng	牆頭, 壁頭

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

壁

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ひゃく (hyaku)
• Kan-on: へき (heki, Jōyō)
• Kun: かべ (kabe, 壁, Jōyō)、とりで (toride)
• Nanori: かべ (kabe)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
壁
かべ Grade: S
kun'yomi

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Noun

壁(かべ) • (kabe) 

1. wall; barrier
   • 2011 May 14, “アクア・マドール”, in Beginner's Edition 1, Konami:

     水(みず)をあやつる魔(ま)法(ほう)使(つか)い。分(ぶ)厚(あつ)い水(みず)の壁(かべ)をつくり敵(てき)を押(お)しつぶす。

     Mizu o ayatsuru mahōtsukai. Buatsui mizu no kabe o tsukuri teki o oshitsubusu.

     A water-manipulating magician who crushes his enemies with his massive water walls.

Coordinate terms

• 床(ゆか) (yuka): floor
• 天井(てんじょう) (tenjō): ceiling

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Korean

Hanja

壁 (eumhun 벽 벽 (byeok byeok))

1. hanja form^? of 벽 (“wall”)

Compounds

• 장벽 (腸壁/障壁, jangbyeok, “barrier”)
• 절벽 (絶壁, jeolbyeok, “a precipice (a very steep cliff)”)
• 방화벽 (防火壁, banghwabyeok, “firewall”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壁: Hán Nôm readings: bích, bệch, bịch, vách

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