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拂

bì

Meanings

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bì
  1. 1.old variant of 弼[bì]
fú
  1. 1.to flick
  2. 2.to brush off
  3. 3.(of a breeze) to brush lightly over
  4. 4.(literary) to run counter to

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to stroke; to touch lightly
  2. 2.to flick; to whisk; to brush off
  3. 3.to sweep
  4. 4.duster
  5. 5.to go against; to run counter to; to defy

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pʰɯd): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 弗 (OC *pɯd).

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Stroke order

Components

拂扌弗

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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Derived terms

吹拂拂塵拂尘拂曉拂晓

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Related words

拂拭 to wipe拂动 (of a breeze) to make (hair, leaves, clothing etc) sway gently; to ruffle飘拂 to drift lightly拂逆 to go against拂晓 daybreak吹拂 to brush拂扫 whisk拂尘 horsetail whisk拂袖而去 to storm off in a huff (idiom)