Read Edit View history 别 biéBiébiè HSK1 separate Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Simplified form of 別. Depicts a knife (刂) cutting meat off of a bone (另). Pinyin Separate values with commas bié ×biè × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 别 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas 別 ×别 ×彆 × Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Depicts a bone. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 别 Simp strokes 别 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint 刂 is a component form of 刀. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 别 Simp strokes 别 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 别 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 194, 704 ], [ 223, 675 ], [ 252, 484 ] ], [ [ 256, 669 ], [ 268, 684 ], [ 282, 689 ], [ 417, 724 ], [ 449, 719 ], [ 475, 694 ], [ 445, 598 ], [ 419, 579 ] ], [ [ 275, 530 ], [ 285, 523 ], [ 302, 524 ], [ 413, 549 ], [ 471, 542 ] ], [ [ 138, 368 ], [ 185, 358 ], [ 429, 407 ], [ 458, 409 ], [ 483, 395 ], [ 491, 382 ], [ 470, 245 ], [ 452, 170 ], [ 426, 102 ], [ 407, 79 ], [ 386, 68 ], [ 305, 126 ] ], [ [ 308, 498 ], [ 339, 478 ], [ 329, 394 ], [ 298, 282 ], [ 268, 217 ], [ 231, 157 ], [ 170, 84 ], [ 116, 36 ] ], [ [ 602, 595 ], [ 631, 562 ], [ 633, 256 ] ], [ [ 760, 788 ], [ 777, 780 ], [ 811, 748 ], [ 811, 461 ], [ 824, 75 ], [ 804, 25 ], [ 754, 39 ], [ 679, 72 ], [ 677, 78 ], [ 666, 78 ] ] ], "strokes": [ "M 247 698 Q 237 705 201 714 Q 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405 573 397 570 Q 325 548 267 537 C 238 531 239 515 268 508 Q 284 504 299 504 L 355 516 Z", "M 304 394 Q 294 394 282 391 Q 197 378 147 378 Q 131 379 129 370 Q 128 361 148 348 Q 172 332 195 339 Q 246 352 299 363 L 349 373 Q 389 380 431 385 Q 447 386 451 378 Q 455 368 453 336 Q 443 222 420 163 Q 408 126 396 114 Q 386 104 363 111 Q 332 124 302 136 Q 281 143 295 123 Q 335 74 357 35 Q 366 14 386 19 Q 401 20 420 40 Q 475 92 505 297 Q 512 343 531 369 Q 547 388 539 398 Q 524 416 492 431 Q 470 444 443 433 Q 404 420 355 406 L 304 394 Z", "M 299 363 Q 268 231 134 65 Q 124 55 113 41 Q 107 32 113 31 Q 120 30 130 36 Q 266 127 312 255 Q 333 304 349 373 L 355 406 Q 359 436 377 485 Q 383 495 375 504 Q 369 510 355 516 C 329 530 292 533 299 504 Q 312 455 304 394 L 299 363 Z", "M 589 584 Q 622 511 601 321 Q 592 285 623 249 Q 633 239 643 250 Q 665 287 661 333 Q 655 490 663 555 Q 669 577 649 589 Q 633 599 615 607 Q 602 611 593 606 Q 584 599 589 584 Z", "M 778 710 Q 784 673 794 104 Q 794 80 781 70 Q 771 63 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