笔 (bǐ) — Chinese Character

笔

bǐ

pen; pencil; writing brush; to write or compose; the strokes of Chinese characters; classifier for sums of money, deals

Radical: ⺮ HSK 2 q, n ideographic

Components & Etymology

笔 decomposes into the following components:

⺮毛

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 笔.

下笔

xià bǐ

to put pen to paper

五笔

wǔ bǐ

abbr. of 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

亲笔

qīn bǐ

in one's own handwriting

代笔

dài bǐ

伏笔

fú bǐ

foreshadowing (literary device)

信笔

xìn bǐ

to write freely

光笔

guāng bǐ

light pen

冗笔

rǒng bǐ

superfluous words (in writing)

刀笔

dāo bǐ

writing up of official or judicial documents

动笔

dòng bǐ

墨笔

mò bǐ

writing brush

大笔

dà bǐ

Large

Characters that share the radical ⺮.

Practice this character with stroke-order training, spaced repetition, and reading passages across all HSK levels.