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Trad. 闢
  • to open (a door)
  • to open up (for development)
  • to dispel; to refute; to repudiate
  • (bound form) penetrating; incisive
  • (literary) king; monarch
  • (literary) (of a sovereign) to summon to official service
  • (literary) to avoid (variant of 避[bi4])
  • (literary) to repel (variant of 避[bi4])
  • penal law
  • variant of 闢|辟[pi4]
Trad. 開闢
  • to open up
  • to set up
  • to establish
  • to stand off
  • to make way
Trad. 透闢
  • penetrating
  • incisive
  • (literary) death sentence; decapitation
Trad. 警闢
  • profound, thorough and moving
Trad. 復辟
  • to recover one's power or authority
  • restoration (of a past regime)
Trad. 闢室
  • lit. to open a room
  • fig. to settle in a quiet room
  • behind closed doors
Trad. 闢建
  • (Tw) to construct (on undeveloped land)
Trad. 闢謠
  • to refute a rumor
  • to deny
Trad. 辟穀
  • (Taoism) to abstain from eating cereals; to fast
  • also pr. [pi4gu3]
  • to ward off evil spirits
  • mythical lion-like animal that wards off evil (also called 貔貅[pi2 xiu1])
  • central of the five Zhou dynasty royal academies
Trad. 精闢
  • clear and penetrating (e.g. analysis)
  • incisive
  • insightful
Trad. 辟雍硯
  • ink slab or ink stone of celadon or white porcelain with unglazed surface
Trad. 丁巳復辟
  • Manchu Restoration of 1917, see 張勳復辟|张勋复辟[Zhang1 Xun1 Fu4 bi4]
Trad. 開天闢地
  • to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古[Pan2 gu3] creation myth

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