壁

音読おんよみ: ヘキ

訓読くんよみ: かべ

画数かくすう: 16

部首ぶしゅ: つち(土)

Meaning

Wall / Partition / Cliff Face

  • かべ — wall; partition
  • 城壁じょうへき — castle walls; ramparts
  • 岩壁がんぺき — rock wall; cliff
  • 岸壁がんぺき — quay; wharf face
  • 絶壁ぜっぺき — sheer cliff; precipice
  • 壁画へきが — mural
  • 鉄壁てっぺき — ironclad; impregnable

A phono-semantic build: marks earth or masonry, while the phonetic element gives the reading ヘキ and the sense of a barrier. From house partitions to towering cliff faces, names structures that block, protect, or divide.

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