撇 piě

1. piě noun a downwards-left curved character stroke
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Art
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '撇'; Guoyu '撇' piě n 1; XHZD '撇' piě 2, p. 568; Sun 2006, loc. 1178)
2. piě measure word measure word for eye brows and beards
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (Guoyu '撇' piě n 3)
3. piē verb to discard; to abandon; to throw away
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 抛弃 (CC-CEDICT '撇'; Guoyu '撇' piē v 1; Unihan '撇'; XHZD '撇' piē 1, p. 568)
4. piē verb to skim
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 刮舀出来; for example, 撇油 'skim fat' (Guoyu '撇' piē v 4; XHZD '撇' piē 2, p. 568)
5. piě verb to throw
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撇' piě 2, p. 345; XHZD '撇' piě 1, p. 568)
6. piě noun an object in the shape of the downwards-left curved character stroke
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '撇' piě n 2; Kroll 2015 '撇' piě 3, p. 345; XHZD '撇' piě 3, p. 568)
7. piě verb to tap
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撇' piě 1, p. 345)
8. piě verb to wipe off; to clean
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 拂拭 (Guoyu '撇' piē v 2)
9. piē verb to lose
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 丟 (Guoyu '撇' piē v 3)
10. piē verb to disobey; to defy
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 违拗 (Guoyu '撇' piē v 5)

Contained in

• 八字还没一撇(八字還沒一撇) there is not even the first stroke of the character 八; things have not even begun to take shape
• 曲撇 long downwards left curved stroke
• 撇去 skim
• 撇开不谈(撇開不談) to ignore an issue
• 撇大条(撇大條) to take a dump
• 短撇 short downwards left curved stroke
• 横撇弯钩(橫撇彎鉤) Heng Pie Wan Gou; CJK stroke HPWG
• 横撇(橫撇) a horizontal stroke and a left falling line
• 撇捺 a left then right falling line
• 撇开(撇開) to disregard; to leave aside
• 长撇(長撇) long downwards left curved stroke
• 直撇 straight left curved stroke
• 撇油 to skim oil; to skim fat
• 八字没一撇(八字沒一撇) there is not even the first stroke of the character 八; things have not even begun to take shape
• 三撇 name of Kangxi radical 59
• 八字还没一撇儿(八字還沒一撇兒) there is not even the first stroke of the character 八; things have not even begun to take shape
• 撇掉 to skim froth or foam from the surface of a liquid
• 撇下 to cast away
• 撇嘴 to curl one's lip; to twitch one's mouth
• 撇步 trick (of the trade); clever move
• 撇条(撇條) to go to the toilet
• 撇号(撇號) apostrophe ' (punct.); accent mark; prime symbol
• 撇清 to say a matter has no relationship with the individual referred to, to emphasise one is innocent or in the clear
• 左撇子 left-handed

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Truncated for common words

• 第二十五回 Chapter 25 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 4
• 第七十回 Chapter 70 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4
• 第四回 Chapter 4 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 4
• 第七十回 Chapter 70 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
• 第六十回 Chapter 60 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
• 第三十八回 Chapter 38 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
• 第二十六回 Chapter 26 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
• 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
• 第十四回 Chapter 14 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
• 第四十八回 Chapter 48 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3

Collocations

• 撇在 (撇在) 將你撇在土牢裏 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第九回 Chapter 9 — count: 12
• 一撇 (一撇) 用上一撇一點俱不成字 — History of Song 宋史, 卷四百三十一 列傳第一百九十 儒林一 聶崇義 邢昺 孫奭 王昭素 孔維 孔宜 崔頌子:曥 尹拙 田敏 辛文悅 李覺 崔頤正弟:偓佺 李之才 Volume 431 Biographies 190: Confucian Scholars 1 - Nie Chongyi, Xing Bing, Sun Shi, Wang Zhaosu, Kong Wei, Kong Yi, Cui Song and son: Lu, Yin Zhuo, Tian Min, Xin Wenyue, Li Jue, Cui Yizheng and younger brother: Woquan, Li Zhicai — count: 6
• 便撇 (便撇) 便撇了不喫 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第六回 Chapter 6 — count: 5
• 撇天 (撇天) 浮蔑蠓而撇天 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十七 揚雄傳 上 Volume 87a: Yang Xiong 1 — count: 4
• 儿撇 (兒撇) 寓俱藍國也裏可溫主兀咱兒撇裏馬亦遣使奉表 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷十二　本紀第十二: 世祖九 Volume 12 Annals 12: Shizu 9 — count: 4
• 撇在地下 (撇在地下) 便去場上將這十兩銀子撇在地下 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十八回 Chapter 38 — count: 3
• 撇戟 (撇戟) 撇戟丟鎗 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第七十七回 Chapter 77 — count: 3
• 抛撇 (拋撇) 適閒拋撇 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十三回 Chapter 43 — count: 3
• 汉撇 (漢撇) 那漢撇了朴刀 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第六回 Chapter 6 — count: 2
• 李逵撇 (李逵撇) 李逵撇了大斧 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第五十三回 Chapter 53 — count: 2