闭
bì HSK4

shut

闭 (閉) bì
close verb
to move something to a closed position or to shut

面对大家的质问，他始终保持沉默，闭口不言。

miàn​duì dà​jiā de zhì​wèn, tā shǐ​zhōng bǎo​chí chén​mò, bì kǒu bù yán.

In the face of everyone's questioning, he remained silent and didn't say a word.

obstruct verb
to stop up or block a passage, opening, or flow

那条排水管被杂物闭住了，污水排不出去。

nà tiáo pái​shuǐ​guǎn bèi zá​wù bì zhù le, wū​shuǐ pái bù chū​qù.

The drainpipe was blocked by debris, and the sewage couldn't flow out.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,267th most common 100.9 per million
Movie subtitles
635th most common 214.8 per million appears in 60% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
235.3 per million appears in 52% of films
Written text
24.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
閉
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+95ED

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