pāng

torrential

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

旁 sound component

  Sound component

páng

  

side

Evolution

滂 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
滂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pāng

torrential; voluminous; rushing (water)

Most common words with 滂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

滂沱

pouring

rushing (water)

滂沱大雨

torrents of rain (idiom)

涕泗滂沱

a flood of tears and mucus

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4424th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6EC2

Shuowen

“滂,沛也。从水,聲。”


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