Hanja Analyzer
薜

薜 — byeok, pye

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
승검초 벽, 승검초 폐, 돌삼 폐
Romanization
byeok, pye
English
evergreen shrubs, genus Ligusticum
Mandarin
bì
Japanese on'yomi
ヘイ, ヘキ, ヒャク, ベイ, ハク, バク, ハイ, ベ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
16
Radical
艸 (140, 13 residual)
Phonetic component
辟(벽)
Unicode
U+859C

Parts that make up 薜

  • 艹 풀 초variant of 艸 돋아난 풀잎 둘풀·나물·약초. 글자 위에 얹힌다
  • 辟 물리칠 벽, 피할 피sound 법을 집행하는 모습‘벽·피·비’ 계열의 소리

How 薜 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 薜 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 辟.

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 艸

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