屏 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

píng, bīng, bǐng

folding screen

Phonosemantic compound. 户 represents the meaning and 并 represents the sound.

Components

户 Meaning component

hù

door

并 Sound component

bìng

combine

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

屏

píng

folding screen, shield; (standing) screen

屏

bīng

see 屏營|屏营[bīngyíng]

屏

bǐng

to get rid of; to put aside; to reject; to keep control; to hold (one's breath)

Most common words with 屏

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	屏幕	screen (TV, computer or movie)
	屏	to get rid of
	屏蔽	to screen
	屏障	barrier
	显示屏	display screen

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

摒

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[b]ˤeŋ	beng	píng	screen; to protect

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 10.2355% of movies

2016th most common character in movies

1891st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	9
Unicode	U+5C4F
Shuowen	“屏，敝也。从尸，并聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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