Chinese Character Wiki

凭

píng

lean on

Leaning on (trusting) 任 a table 几

Components
任 meaning component

任  Meaning component

rèn, rén

  

responsibility

几 meaning component

几  Meaning component

jī, jǐ

  

small table

Evolution

凭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
凭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

凭 (憑) 

píng

lean on, depend on, rely on; to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof

凭 (凴) 

píng

variant of 憑|凭[píng]

Most common words with 凭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凭

to rely on

凭借

to rely on

文凭

diploma

凭空

baseless (lie)

凭证

proof

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 21.2718% of movies

1565th most common character in movies

1410th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

憑

Unicode

U+51ED

Shuowen

“凭，依几也。从几，从任。《周書》：‘凭玉几。’”


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