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Chinese
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wall; rampart
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set up; to stand
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simp. and trad.
(壁立)
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壁
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立
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| Literally: “standing like a wall”.
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Pronunciation
Verb
壁立
- (of cliffs etc.) to rise or drop sheer (as steep as nearly perpendicular)
Synonyms
- 岢峻 (kějùn, “high and steep”) (literary, of a mountain)
- 岢峨 (kě'é, “high and steep”) (literary, of a mountain)
- 峭 (qiào) (in compounds)
- 峻峭 (jùnqiào, “high and steep”) (of a mountain)
- 崒 (zú) (literary)
- 崎 (qí) (literary or Southern Min)
- 嶔崟／嵚崟 (qīnyín, “dangerously steep”) (literary)
- 嶜崟 (“dangerously steep”)
- 巀嶭 (“high, lofty and steep”) (of mountains)
- 巉岩 (chányán) (literary)
- 巉峻 (chánjùn) (literary)
- 巉巉 (chánchán) (literary)
- 筆陡／笔陡 (bǐdǒu)
- 陡 (dǒu)
- 陡峭 (dǒuqiào)
- 陡直 (dǒuzhí)
- 險峻／险峻 (xiǎnjùn, “dangerously steep”)
- 高峻 (gāojùn, “high and steep”) (of a mountain)