- 壁 — wall; partition
- 城壁 — castle walls; ramparts
- 岩壁 — rock wall; cliff
- 岸壁 — quay; wharf face
- 絶壁 — sheer cliff; precipice
- 壁画 — mural
- 鉄壁 — ironclad; impregnable
A phono-semantic build: 土 marks earth or masonry, while the phonetic element 辟 gives the reading ヘキ and the sense of a barrier. From house partitions to towering cliff faces, 壁 names structures that block, protect, or divide.