bēng
rupture
Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 朋 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
bēng
rupture, split apart, collapse; to collapse; to fall into ruins; death of king or emperor; demise
Most common words with 崩
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to collapse | ||
to collapse | ||
talus slide | ||
avalanche | ||
to collapse |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.pˤəŋ | pong | bēng | collapse (v., of a mountain) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.8646% of movies
1813th most common character in movies
2178th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5D29 |
Shuowen | “，山壞也。” |
Sources
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