pián

to walk with a limp

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

foot

扁 sound component

  Sound component

biǎnpiān

  

flat

Evolution

蹁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蹁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pián

to walk with a limp; to limp

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*bˤe[r]

ben

pián

蹁蹮 walk with difficulty (Shuōwén)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6646th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8E41

Shuowen

“蹁,足不正也。从足,扁聲。一曰拖後足馬。讀若苹,或曰徧。”


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