pīng

beautiful

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

woman

甹 sound component

  Sound component

pīng

  

chivalrous knight

Evolution

娉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
娉 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
娉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pīng

beautiful, attractive, charming, graceful; graceful

Most common words with 娉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

graceful

娉婷

beautiful woman

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p.[r̥]eŋ-s

phjiengH

pìn

inquire about (marriage)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5284th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5A09

Shuowen

“娉,問也。从女,甹聲。”


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