Kanji Detail for 屛 - "fence, screen, cover, withdraw"

屛

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
屛 means "fence, screen, cover, withdraw."
1. Fence - A hedge; an enclosure.
2. Screen - A partition.
3. Cover - To hide; to conceal.
4. Withdraw - To retreat; to dismiss.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

folding screen

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

variant of 屏[ping2]

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

To screen. Ancients set these before and after doors to separate inside and outside. Hence enfeoffing lords is called 屏藩, meaning protecting the royal house. | Display items. Also called 屏風, meaning to block wind. Such as 圍屏, 畫屏. Now, paintings in sets of several scrolls are also called 屏. Such as 屏條, 屏對, used to decorate walls. | To remove; to dismiss. Such as 屏之遠方. Also written as 摒. | To withdraw. (Book of Rites) "Then left and right withdrew to wait." Now, waiting attentively is called 屏息以侍, meaning standing without daring to breathe.
Onyomi

byoh(びょう)

hei(へい)
Kunyomi

oo.u(おおう)

shirizo.ku(しりぞく)
Strokes

11 strokes
Radical

尸 (shikabane・kabane・shikabanekammuri)
Related Keywords
fence hedge enclosure screen partition cover hide conceal withdraw retreat dismiss