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彼

bǐ

HSK 5 Character

What 彼 means

1. that
2. those
3. (one) another

Example sentences

• 彼得喜欢珍。
  Peter loves Jane.
• 彼得现在不在。
  Peter is not in now.
• 我们彼此相爱。
  We love each other.
• 他们彼此相爱。
  They love each other.
• 他们彼此相爱吗?
  Do they love each other?
• 他们曾彼此微笑。
  They used to smile at each other.

Words starting with 彼

• 彼此bǐ cǐeach other; one another
• 彼岸bǐ ànthe other shore; (Buddhism) paramita
• 彼时bǐ shíat that time
• 彼得堡Bǐ dé bǎoPetersburg (place name); Saint Petersburg, Russia
• 彼拉多Bǐ lā duōPilate (Pontius Pilate in the Biblical passion story)
• 彼尔姆Bǐ ěr mǔPerm, Russian city in the Urals
• 彼得前书Bǐ dé qián shūFirst Epistle of Peter (in New Testament)
• 彼得后书Bǐ dé Hòu shūSecond Epistle of Peter (in New Testament)
• 彼得格勒Bǐ dé gé lèPetrograd (former name of Saint Petersburg 圣彼得堡
• 彼拉提斯Bǐ lā tí sīPilates (physical fitness system) (Tw)
• 彼此彼此bǐ cǐ bǐ cǐ(idiom) you and me both; that makes two of us
• 彼岸花bǐ àn huāred spider lily (Lycoris radiata); cluster amaryllis
• 彼得潘Bǐ dé PānPeter Pan, the novel character
• 彼一时此一时bǐ yī shí cǐ yī shíthat was one thing, and this is another; times have changed
• 彼得Bǐ déPeter (name)
• 彼得罗维奇Bǐ dé luó wéi qíPetrovich (name)
• 彼一时，此一时bǐ yī shí , cǐ yī shísee 此一時，此一时，彼一时

Words containing 彼

• 此起彼伏cǐ qǐ bǐ fúup here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession…
• 圣彼得堡Shèng bǐ dé bǎoSaint Petersburg (city in Russia)
• 知己知彼zhī jǐ zhī bǐknow yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孙子兵法
• 爱彼迎Ài bǐ yíngAirbnb
• 圣彼得Shèng bǐ déSaint Peter
• 阿彼雅Ā bǐ yǎAbijah (biblical name)
• 不分彼此bù fēn bǐ cǐto make no distinction between what's one's own and what's another's (idiom)…
• 此消彼长cǐ xiāo bǐ zhǎng(idiom) one declines while the other flourishes; one loses out when the other one gains…
• 此起彼落cǐ qǐ bǐ luòto rise and fall in succession (idiom); repeating continuously
• 知彼知己zhī bǐ zhī jǐto know the enemy and know oneself (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")
• 蒙彼利埃Méng bǐ lì āiMontpellier (French town)
• 非此即彼fēi cǐ jí bǐeither this or that; one or the other
• 顾此失彼gù cǐ shī bǐlit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom)…
• 卡特彼勒公司Kǎ tè bǐ lè gōng sīCaterpillar Inc.
• 厚此薄彼hòu cǐ bó bǐto favour one and discriminate against the other
• 辣彼là bǐ(loanword) rabbi
• 此一时，彼一时cǐ yī shí , bǐ yī shíthat was then, this is now; times have changed
• 知己知彼，百战不殆zhī jǐ zhī bǐ , bǎi zhàn bù dàiknow yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated…
• 知彼知己，百战不殆zhī bǐ zhī jǐ , bǎi zhàn bù dàiknowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles…
• 此伏彼起cǐ fú bǐ qǐsee 此起彼伏

Characters built on 皮

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

• 披pīto drape over one's shoulders; to open; to unroll
• 疲píweary
• 铍píberyllium (chemistry)

Characters that look like 彼

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

• 玻bōsee 玻璃
• 坡pōslope; sloping; slanted
• 拨bōto push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate
• 挂guàto hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead
• 披pīto drape over one's shoulders; to open; to unroll
• 拔báto pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction

Sounds the same

Read bǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 比to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more adj. than noun; ratio
• 笔writing brush; writing implement (pen, pencil etc); brushstroke…
• 鄙rustic; low; base
• 俾to cause; to enable; phonetic bi
• 匕dagger; ladle; ancient type of spoon
• 吡used as phonetic bi- or pi-
• 秕grain not fully grown; husks; withered grain
• 妣deceased mother
• 舭bilge
• 沘name of a river
• 疕facial skin disease; mange
• 夶old variant of 比