pīng
chivalrous knight
Origin unclear.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[p.l̥]ˤeŋ | pheng | pīng | frank words (Shuōwén) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+7539 |
Shuowen | “甹,亟詞也。从丂,从由。或曰:甹,俠也。(三輔)謂輕財者為甹。” |
Sources
李学勤《字源》p.419
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