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Kanji Detail for 璧 - "jade, perfect, precious"
璧
- Meaning
璧 means "jade, perfect, precious."
Beautiful like jade - Splendid; magnificent; perfect.
Round jade - A circular jade disc with a hole in the center; a ritual object.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
sphere; ball
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
piece of jade with hole in it
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
jade annulus
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
a jade annulus
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Jade in a flat round shape where the diameter of the center hole equals the width of one side. | Anciently among the five ranks, viscounts held grain-pattern bi disks, barons held rush-pattern bi disks. Also, blue-green bi disks were used to worship Heaven. All seen in (Rites of Zhou). | Not accepting and returning something is colloquially called 璧. As in 璧謝 (returning a gift with thanks). Based on Duke Wen of Jin receiving a gift and returning the jade. Seen in (Zuo Zhuan).
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