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粵語辭叢

辟邪

pik1 ce4included in 2 dictionaries
粵典 (words.hk)Hong KongWord

趕走衰運;趕走妖魔鬼怪 (to get rid of bad luck; to exorcise evil spirits or ghosts)

動詞

Examples

聽講大蒜可以辟邪喎。

teng1 gong2 daai6 syun3 ho2 ji5 pik1 ce4 wo5.

I hear that garlic can exorcise evil spirits or ghosts.

維基辭典YueWord

Original phonetic: /pʰɪk̚⁵ t͡sʰɛː²¹/

01

bixie, the mythical creature (a chimera-like figure, commonly stone sculpture)

Examples

今鄧州南陽縣北有宗資碑,旁有兩石獸,鐫其膊一曰天祿,二曰辟邪。據此,即天祿、辟邪,並獸名也。

Today there are two stone statues beside the tombstone of Zong Zi (fl. 160) located to the north of Nanyang County of Dengzhou with characters carved on their wings, one being tianlu, the other called bixie. From this we can infer that both tianlu and bixie are the names of beasts.

02

alternative spelling of 避邪 (bìxié, “to ward off evil spirits”)