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Kanji Detail for 壁 - "wall"

壁

  • Meaning

    壁 means "wall." Also associated with fort, to fortify.

    1. Wall - Something surrounding a house; also dividing rooms inside.

    2. Fort - A wall to prevent enemy invasion.

    3. To fortify - To barricade inside a fort.

    4. Cliff - A cliff with steep incline like a wall.

  • Words using 壁

    • 壁画 へきが Listen fresco; mural; wall painting
    • 外壁 がいへき Listen outer wall
    • 壁面 へきめん Listen surface of a wall
    • 岸壁 がんぺき Listen quay; wharf; jetty

  • Four-character idioms with 壁

    • 断崖絶壁 だんがいぜっぺき Listen precipitous cliff; sheer precipice; critical situation
    • 近所合壁 きんじょがっぺき Listen immediate neighborhood; immediate neighbourhood
    • 金城鉄壁 きんじょうてっぺき Listen impregnable castle (walls); impregnable; invulnerable
    • 面壁九年 めんぺきくねん Listen facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple)

  • Tattoo check: 壁

    • Verified meaning: wall
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read かべ, ふくお, ふくたけ, ふくとみ)
    • Also carries these associations: fort, to fortify

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 壁

    Surnames 壁(かべ)Listen 壁(ふくお)Listen 壁(ふくたけ)Listen 壁(ふくとみ)Listen 壁(ふくどみ)Listen 壁(ふくとめ)Listen 壁(ふくべ)Listen 壁(みねお)Listen 壁(みねとし)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    wall; lining (stomach); fence

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    partition wall; walls of a house; 14th lunar mansion, determinative star γ Pegasi (Algenib)

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    wall; rampart

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    partition, wall; rampart

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

    A wall. The outer wall is called 牆; the inner wall is called 壁, providing shelter from wind and cold. | Military camp walls are called 壁. Such as 壁壘森嚴 (heavily fortified). | Steep, sheer cliffs are called 壁. Such as 懸崖絕壁 (precipitous cliffs). | A star name. One of the twenty-eight lunar mansions. Also called 東壁. Ancient astronomers considered it the repository of books and pictures.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    heki(ヘキ) ヘキ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kabe(かべ) かべ

  • Strokes

    tip

    16 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)

  • Related Keywords

    wall fort to fortify barrier cliff partition fence boundary enclosure defense brick plaster mural obstacle precipice steep

Sentences including 壁

  • The boy drew a picture on the wall.

  • Put these pictures up us for wall , please.

  • His eye fell on the picture on the wall.

  • He hung a picture on the wall.

  • There are many paintings on the wall.

  • Don't lean against the wall.

  • There is a picture on the wall.

  • Don't lean against the wall.

  • He painted the picture which is on the wall.

  • He stood with his back to the wall.

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