péng
name of an ancient country
Original meaning:
sound of a drum
Depicts the sound (彡) coming from a drum (壴). Based on the original meaning "sound of a drum". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernFreq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
surname Peng | ||
Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution | ||
Peng Zhen (1902-1997), Chinese communist leader | ||
Pengzhou county level city in Chengdu 成都[Chéngdū], Sichuan | ||
Bloomberg (name) |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[b]ˤraŋ | baeng | péng | (place name) |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0412% of movies
2990th most common character in movies
1501st most common character in books
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5F6D |
Shuowen | “彭，鼓聲也。从壴，彡聲。” |
