辟 Strokes Write it Listen 辟 pì law, rule; to open up, to develop HSK 7–9 13 strokes Radical 辛 Ideograph 2 words Built from尸shībody, corpse口kǒumouth; entrance, gate, opening辛xīnbitter; toilsome, laborious; 8th heavenly stem How it worksA body 尸 decapitated 口 by a sword 辛 , representing the law.