屄

bī
noun #20,271 vulgar

Meanings

  1. 1 vulva; vagina (extremely vulgar slang)

Examples

HSK 7-9
他满嘴“傻屄”,同事们都很反感。
Tā mǎnzuǐ " shǎ bī ", tóngshìmen dōu hěn fǎngǎn.
He keeps saying "stupid cunt", and his coworkers can't stand it.

Tips

register
屄 is one of the most offensive words in Mandarin, equivalent to the English c-word. It is used as the basis of compound insults such as 傻屄 and appears in extremely crude speech. Avoid entirely in any formal or polite context.

Components

radical
尸 shī
body; corpse
Three-stroke body radical wrapping the top-left, the indexing radical. 尸 originally depicted a person seated for ancestral ritual; in modern characters it functions as the anatomical-position marker. Here it points to a body part, much as in 屁 fart, 尿 urine, 屌 penis - the crude body lexicon.
semantic
穴 xué
cave; cavity; hole
Bottom-right 穴 contributes the meaning - a hole, cavity, or opening. The combination with 尸 (body) yields a transparent ideograph for the female anatomical opening. Same character 穴 sits inside 究 to investigate, 空 empty, 窗 window - all involving openings or hollow spaces.

Stroke Order

屄 bī