píng
flat
Origin unclear. Possibly depicts the sound and breathe coming out smoothly with the top stroke resembling the stability of the breathe.
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]en | bjien | pián | distinguish; punctiious |
*breŋ | bjaeng | píng | even (adj.) |
*m-breŋ | bjaeng | píng | make even |
HSK level 2
Appears in 76.4536% of movies
466th most common character in movies
215th most common character in books
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+5E73 |
Shuowen | “平,語平舒也。从亏,从八。八,分也。” |