庇 (bì): to protect
庇 (bì) is a Chinese character meaning “to protect.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 广 (semantic) and 比 (phonetic). It ranks #3034 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 庇 house. Its radical form 广 (shelter) appears in many related characters such as 店 (diàn, shop), 度 (dù, degree, to measure), 座 (zuò, seat).
Definitions
- to protect
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庇护verb | bì hù | to shelter |
| 庇护所noun | bì hù suǒ | shelter |
| 包庇verb | bāo bì | to shield |
| 庇佑verb | bì yòu | to bless |
| 庇西特拉图 | bì xī tè lā tú | Pisistratus (-528 BC), tyrant (ruler) of Athens at different times between 561 BC and 528 BC |
| 欧里庇得斯 | ōu lǐ bì dé sī | Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc |
| 大西庇阿 | dà xī bì ā | Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC), Roman general and statesman |
| 外交庇护 | wài jiāo bì hù | diplomatic asylum |
| 罗伯斯庇尔 | luó bó sī bì ěr | Robespierre (name) |
| 政治庇护noun | zhèng zhì bì hù | political asylum |
| 朱庇特proper-noun | zhū bì tè | Jupiter (Roman god) |
| 亚庇proper-noun | yà bì | Kota Kinabalu (capital of Sabah state, Malaysia) |
| 庇古 | bì gǔ | Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), British economist |
| 托庇verb | tuō bì | to rely on sb for protection |
| 庇祐 | bì yòu | to bless |
庇 appears in 17 compound words: 41 as the first character, 24 as the last, and 35 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 庇 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
庇字在日常生活中使用频率较低。
bì zì zài rì cháng shēng huó zhōng shǐ yòng pín lǜ jiào dī .
The character "庇" is not used very often in everyday life.
【直播】众议院听证会:庇护政策的代价
zhí bō zhòng yì yuàn tīng zhèng huì : bì hù zhèng cè de dài jià
[Live] House Hearing: The Cost of Asylum Policy
白宫:政治庇护申请批准率从50%降至7%
bái gōng : zhèng zhì bì hù shēn qǐng pī zhǔn lǜ cóng 5 0 jiàng zhì 7
White House: Approval rate for political asylum applications drops from 50% to 7%
...】教育部承诺承担全责 “违规必究,绝不包庇”
. . . jiào yù bù chéng nuò chéng dān quán zé wéi guī bì jiū , jué bù bāo bì
...】The Ministry of Education has pledged to take full responsibility, stating that “violations will be investigated and punished, and there will be no cover-ups.”
快讯》又是这路口!计程车左转撞庇护岛卡住 去年才翻车今又出事
kuài xùn yòu shì zhè lù kǒu ! jì chéng chē zuǒ zhuǎn zhuàng bì hù dǎo kǎ zhù qù nián cái fān chē jīn yòu chū shì
Breaking News: That Intersection Again! Taxi Gets Stuck After Turning Left into Traffic Island; Another Accident at the Same Spot Just a Year After a Rollover
钟文智请托信义分局所长包庇签到 时任福德所长回覆“OK”遭检调约谈
zhōng wén zhì qǐng tuō xìn yì fēn jú suǒ cháng bāo bì qiān dào shí rèn fú dé suǒ cháng huí fù O K zāo jiǎn diào yuē tán
Zhong Wenzhi asked the director of the Xinyi Branch to cover up the sign-in, and the then director of Fude replied "OK" and was interviewed by the prosecution
Character Family
广 Radical Family — Characters sharing the shelter radical
Frequently Asked Questions
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