pián

team of horses

A team of horses  working together 

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

并 meaning component

  Meaning component

bìng

  

combine

Evolution

駢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
駢 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
駢 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

pián

team of horses; associate, join; (of a pair of horses) to pull side by side; to be side by side; to be fused together; parallel (literary style)

() 

Pián

surname Pian

Most common words with 駢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to be side by side

骈体

parallel prose (ancient literary style)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4562nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+99E2

Shuowen

“駢,駕二馬也。从馬,并聲。”


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