píng
level ground
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 平 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
píng
level ground; Japanese measure; a plain; ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters (used in Japan and Taiwan)
Most common words with 坪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
lawn | ||
a plain | ||
apron | ||
Nanping, common place name | ||
Shapingba district of central Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.2127% of movies
2554th most common character in movies
2716th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+576A |
Shuowen | “坪，地平也。从土，从平，平亦聲。” |
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