拂
fúbì

shake off

拂 fú frequency
to brush verb
to brush away; to wipe off; to whisk or flick dust away

他把雪从头发上拂去。

tā bǎ xuě cóng tóu​fa shang fú qù.

He brushed the snow from his hair.

to stroke
to touch lightly; to graze or brush past, like a breeze
to shake
to shake or wave something, especially one's sleeves in a gesture of anger or leave-taking
to go against
(literary) to defy or go against someone's wishes; to run counter to
to approach
to approach or be near, as in the time just before dawn
duster
a tool used for whisking away dust or flies; a whisk or brush
拂 bì
to assist
(bound form) to assist or help; used identically to 弼 bì

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,623rd most common 16.2 per million
Movie subtitles
3,264th most common 2.22 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.55 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.89 per million

Details
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+62C2

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