闢 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. ひらく。あける。
  2. 反駁する。
  3. 広広とする。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「門」 + 音符「辟」。「ひらく」を意味する漢語{闢}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

open

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ヘキ
  • ビャク
Kun (native)
  • ひら(く)
Other languages
  • 拼音pi4
  • 拼音bi4
  • 拼音pi1
  • 한글byeog
  • Hán-ViệtTịch

Basics

Strokes
21 strokes
Radical
門(もん)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+95E2

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿵門辟

Lookup codes

SKIP
3-8-13
Four Corner
7764.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
8e13.1
Nelson
4976