píng

level ground

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

平 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

píng

  

flat

Evolution

坪 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
坪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

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

草坪

lawn

a plain

停机坪

apron

南坪

Nanping, common place name

沙坪坝区

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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