Meaning & readings
evade, avoid, avert, ward off, shirk, shun
Origin
This character combines a left-side component meaning "to go" or "movement" with a right-side sound hint. The sound component "辟" tells you roughly how to pronounce the character — it doesn't contribute the meaning. Together, the left side suggests the action of moving or going, while the overall character developed the meaning of moving away from or evading something. Think of it as the idea of moving oneself out of the way to avoid something.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 辟
- ⻌
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 16
- Kangxi radical
- 162
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #756 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+0907F