譬

pì
#2,436 most
frequent character
to give an example

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

譬 puts 言, speech, with 辟 pì, which supplies the sound. Speech points to the first meaning, to make an analogy. From there it grew to analogy and to give an example.

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