壁立

Chinese

		wall; rampart	set up; to stand
simp. and trad. (壁立)		壁	立
Literally: “standing like a wall”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bìlì

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bik¹ laap⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìlì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìlì
    • Wade–Giles: pi⁴-li⁴
    • Yale: bì-lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihlih
    • Palladius: били (bili)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bik¹ laap⁶
    • Yale: bīk laahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bik⁷ laap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: big¹ lab⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɪk̚⁵ laːp̚²/

Verb

壁立

1. (of cliffs etc.) to rise or drop sheer (as steep as nearly perpendicular)

Synonyms

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• 岢峻 (kějùn, “high and steep”) (literary, of a mountain)
• 岢峨 (kě'é, “high and steep”) (literary, of a mountain)
• 峭 (qiào) (in compounds)
• 峻峭 (jùnqiào, “high and steep”) (of a mountain)
• 崒 (zú) (literary)
• 崎 (qí) (literary or Southern Min)
• 嶔崟／嵚崟 (qīnyín, “dangerously steep”) (literary)
• 嶜崟 (“dangerously steep”)
• 巀嶭 (“high, lofty and steep”) (of mountains)
• 巉岩 (chányán) (literary)
• 巉峻 (chánjùn) (literary)
• 巉巉 (chánchán) (literary)
• 筆陡／笔陡 (bǐdǒu)
• 陡 (dǒu)
• 陡峭 (dǒuqiào)
• 陡直 (dǒuzhí)
• 險峻／险峻 (xiǎnjùn, “dangerously steep”)
• 高峻 (gāojùn, “high and steep”) (of a mountain)