1. noun wall
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '壁'; Guoyu '壁' n 1; Kroll 2015 '壁' 1, p. 16; Unihan '壁'; XHZD '壁' 1, pp. 40-41)
  2. noun a cliff
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '壁' n 3; Kroll 2015 '壁' 2, p. 16; XHZD '壁' 2, pp. 40-41)
  3. noun a rampart
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '壁'; Guoyu '壁' n 4; Kroll 2015 '壁' 3, p. 16; XHZD '壁' 3, pp. 40-41)
  4. proper noun Bi
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Name of a star constellation (Guoyu '壁' n 6; Kroll 2015 '壁' 4, p. 16; XHZD '壁' 4, pp. 40-41)
  5. noun a partition
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '壁' n 2)
  6. noun a side; an edge
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '壁' n 5)
  7. verb to stay at; to reside at
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '壁' v)
  8. noun wall; prākāra
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: prākāra, Japanese: heki (BCSD '壁', p. 307; MW 'prākāra'; SH '壁', p. 446; Unihan '壁')

Contained in

  • 扶篱摸壁(扶籬摸壁) leaning against a fence, groping along a wall
  • 面壁九年 to sit facing the wall in meditation for nine years
  • 面壁 to devote oneself to study or work ; to face the wall in sitting meditation ; to face the wall; to sit facing the wall in meditation

Also contained in

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Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 1 Avoiding Misfortune Caused by the Seven Planets (Qi Yao Rang Zai Jue) 七曜攘災決 — count: 97
  • Scroll 3 Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經 — count: 56
  • Scroll 47 Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra (Sutra of the Right Mindfulness of Dharma) 正法念處經 — count: 42
  • Scroll 2 Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經 — count: 34
  • Scroll 31 Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra (Sutra of the Right Mindfulness of Dharma) 正法念處經 — count: 23
  • Scroll 1 Sutra on Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva and the Ṛsī ̣Discourses on the Auspicious and Inauspicious Days of the Constellations and Luminous Bodies (Wenshushili Ji Zhu Xian Suo Shuo Jixiong Shi Ri Shan E Su Yao Jing) 文殊師利菩薩及諸仙所說吉凶時日善惡宿曜經 — count: 20
  • Scroll 1 Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經 — count: 18
  • Scroll 9 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 17
  • Scroll 2 Avoiding Misfortune Caused by the Seven Planets (Qi Yao Rang Zai Jue) 七曜攘災決 — count: 16
  • Scroll 4 Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經 — count: 15

Collocations

  • 重壁 (重壁) 有七重壁 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 1 — count: 34
  • 城壁 (城壁) 以著城壁 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 佛般泥洹經, Scroll 2 — count: 26
  • 西壁 (西壁) 火焰至西壁 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 2 — count: 18
  • 壁火焰 (壁火焰) 西壁火焰至東壁 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 2 — count: 11
  • 东壁 (東壁) 黑界泥犁東壁火繞三匝燒人 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 2 — count: 10
  • 南壁 (南壁) 南壁火焰至北壁 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 2 — count: 10
  • 北壁 (北壁) 南壁火焰至北壁 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 2 — count: 10
  • 车璩壁 (車璩壁) 車璩壁一切眾寶門 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 1 — count: 9
  • 金壁 (金壁) 名金壁 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 18 — count: 9
  • 水精壁 (水精壁) 水精壁琉璃門 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 1 — count: 8