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坯

pī

Character

What 坯 means

1. blank (e.g. for a coin)
2. unburnt earthenware
3. semifinished product
4. Taiwan pr. pēi

Example sentences

• 太棒了！是毛坯房还是装修房？
  Tài bàng le! shì máopī fáng háishi zhuāngxiū fáng?
  Great! Is the apartment bought as a concrete shell, or is it ready to move into?

Words starting with 坯

• 坯件pī jiànblank (for a coin etc); breed or strain
• 坯子pī zibase; semifinished product; (fig.) the makings of (a talented actor etc)
• 坯布pī bùunbleached and undyed cloth; gray cloth
• 坯料pī liàosemifinished materials
• 坯模pī múmold

Words containing 坯

• 土坯tǔ pīmud brick; adobe; unfired earthenware
• 扁坯biǎn pīslab
• 拉坯lā pīto make ceramics (on a potter's wheel)
• 毛坯máo pīsemifinished products
• 钢坯gāng pībillet (steel industry)
• 毛坯房máo pī fángundecorated residential unit; house or apartment sold without interior finishing
• 硬币坯yìng bì pīcoin blank
• 美人坯子měi rén pī zia beauty in the bud

Characters built on 丕

These share the phonetic component 丕 (pī), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 邳Pīsurname Pi; Han dynasty county in present-day Jiangsu; also pr. Péi
• 伾pīmultitudinous; powerful

Characters that look like 坯

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 轻qīnglight; easy; gentle
• 抚fǔto comfort; to console; to stroke
• 拣jiǎnto choose; to pick; to sort out
• 骆luòcamel; white horse with a black mane (archaic)
• 胚pēiembryo
• 疮chuāngsore; skin ulcer

Sounds the same

Read pī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 批to ascertain; to act on; to criticize
• 披to drape over one's shoulders; to open; to unroll
• 劈to hack; to chop; to split open
• 噼child's buttocks (esp. Cantonese); (onomatopoeia) crack, slap, clap, clatter etc
• 丕grand
• 霹used in 霹雳
• 砒arsenic
• 纰error; carelessness; spoiled silk
• 伾multitudinous; powerful
• 狉puppy badger
• 秠(millet)
• 錍flat arrow-head; plow blade; also pr. pí