劈
pīpǐ HSK7

cut apart

劈 pī frequency
to chop verbnoun
to chop; to hack; to split open; to cleave downward with an ax or blade
to strike
to strike, kill, or destroy (of lightning or thunderbolt)
wedge
a wedge; a simple machine formed by two inclined planes with a triangular cross-section
directly toward
(bound form) directly toward one's head or face; right against
to split
(of bamboo, wood, pen nibs, etc.) to crack or split open
劈 pǐ
to divide
to split in two; to divide into parts; to share half of something with another person
to strip off
to break or strip off; to tear away, as in removing leaves from a stalk
to spread legs
to spread one's legs or fingers wide apart; to do the splits; to injure oneself by overextending a limb

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,487th most common 19.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,825th most common 4.63 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.68 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
12.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+5288

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)