壁
壁 — byeok
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 벽 벽
- Romanization
- byeok
- English
- partition wall; walls of a house; 14th lunar mansion, determinative star γ Pegasi (Algenib)
- Mandarin
- bì
- Japanese on'yomi
- ヘキ, ヒャク
- Japanese kun'yomi
- かべ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,037 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 土 (32, 13 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 辟(벽)
- Unicode
- U+58C1
Parts that make up 壁
How 壁 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 壁 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 土, 辟.
Korean example words with 壁
- 등벽登壁 Korean gloss: 벽을 오름
- 벽면壁面 Korean gloss: 벽의 거죽
- 성벽城壁 Korean gloss: 성곽의 벽
- 옥벽獄壁 Korean gloss: 감옥의 벽
- 벽등壁燈 Korean gloss: 벽에 다는 등
- 벽상壁上 Korean gloss: 벽면의 위쪽 부분
- 벽지壁紙 Korean gloss: 벽에 바르는 종이
- 북벽北壁 Korean gloss: 임금이 앉는 자리
- 판벽板壁 Korean gloss: 널빤지로 만든 벽
- 난벽難壁 Korean gloss: 오르기 힘든 봉우리
- 내벽內壁 Korean gloss: 건물의 안쪽에 있는 벽
- 벽체壁體 Korean gloss: 벽을 이루는 구조 부분
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 壁
- 壁かべ wall; partition; barrier
- 障壁しょうへき enclosing wall; boundary fence; obstacle
- 壁画へきが fresco; mural; wall painting
- 外壁がいへき outer wall
- 壁面へきめん surface of a wall
- 岸壁がんぺき quay; wharf; jetty
- 壁紙かべがみ wallpaper; wallpaper; background image
- 城壁じょうへき castle wall; town walls; defensive wall
- 隔壁かくへき barrier wall; bulkhead; partition
- 壁掛けかべかけ wall-mounted ornament; wall decoration; wall hanging
- 絶壁ぜっぺき precipice; cliff; flat head
- 白壁しらかべ white plaster wall; tofu; bean curd
Characters sharing the phonetic 辟
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “벽” in Korean.
Other hanja read “벽”
Other hanja with radical 土
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences