閉

閉 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木竹 (ANDH), four-corner 7724₇, composition ⿵門才)

• 𠻻 𡠳 𡮥 𢲾 𰝁 𱢤 𣘥 𤛞 𦟼 𡮤 𡮩 𡮣

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1330, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41222
• Dae Jaweon: page 1835, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4283, character 8
• Unihan data for U+9589

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 門 (“door”) + abbreviated 材 (“material; timber”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pi-t (“to close”), which appears to be an areal word. Cognate with Burmese ပိတ် (pit, “to close”), as well as Thai ปิด (bpìt, “to close”).

閉

1. to shut; to close

   閉門／闭门  ―  bìmén  ―  to shut the door

2. to obstruct; to block up; to stop up

   閉氣／闭气  ―  bìqì  ―  to stop breathing

3. to conclude; to end; to stop

   閉會／闭会  ―  bìhuì  ―  to end a meeting

4. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to keep a secret

   閉步／闭步 [Hokkien]  ―  pì-pō͘ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to keep ceratin industry know-hows a secret

• “閉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. close, shut

• Go-on: はい (hai)
• Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
• On: へつ (hetsu)
• Kun: とじる (tojiru, 閉じる, Jōyō)^{←とぢる (todiru, 閉ぢる, historical)}、とざす (tozasu, 閉ざす, Jōyō)、しめる (shimeru, 閉める, Jōyō)、しまる (shimaru, 閉まる, Jōyō)、たてる (tateru, 閉てる)

• (antonym(s) of “to shut, close”): 開

• 閉(と)じる (tojiru)
• 閉(し)める (shimeru)

閉 • (pye, byeol) (hangeul 폐, 별, revised pye, byeol, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, Yale phyey, pyel)

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閉: Hán Nôm readings: bế, bấy, bé

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