píng
apple
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 平 represents the sound. Simplified form of 蘋.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤeŋ | beng | píng | duckweed |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 7.9289% of movies
2039th most common character in movies
2478th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+82F9 |
Shuowen | “苹，蓱也，無根，浮水而生者。从艸，平聲。” |
Sources
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