(bì) - to close, to shut (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
bìTraditional: 闭
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Translation
to close, to shut (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character: the door radical 门 frames an element representing something blocking the gap, giving the meaning of closing or shutting.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 门 (door radical) + 才 (a barrier across the doorway)
Stroke order
闭
Examples
！。
Shut up! I do not want to listen any more.
。
Please close your eyes.
。
He angrily told him to shut up.
。
Please close your eyes.
。
He kept his mouth closed and said nothing.
闭 (bì) means to close or shut. It is a bound morpheme and most often appears in 闭嘴 (bì zuǐ), to shut up.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 闭.
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