闢

闢 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+13, 21 strokes, cangjie input 日弓尸口十 (ANSRJ), four-corner 7764₁, composition ⿵門辟)

• 𪸌

• 辟 (Simplified form of 闢 in mainland China)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1342, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41500
• Dae Jaweon: page 1847, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4320, character 12
• Unihan data for U+95E2

In the bronze script, an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 門 (“door”) + 𠬜 (“two hands pushing open the door”) – to open.

Since the seal script, now a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *beɡ) : semantic 門 + phonetic 辟 (OC *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ).

Compare 開.

闢

1. to open

   Synonym: 開／开 (kāi)

2. to settle; to develop; to open up

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04400
• “闢”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: びゃく (byaku)^{←びやく (byaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: へき (heki)
• Kun: ひらく (hiraku, 闢く)

闢 • (byeok) (hangeul 벽, revised byeok, McCune–Reischauer pyŏk, Yale pyek)

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闢: Hán Nôm readings: tịch

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