píng

smooth board

A flat  piece of wood  also provides the pronunciation

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

平 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

píng

  

flat

Evolution

枰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
枰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

píng

smooth board; chessboard; chess; chess-like game

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5099th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+67B0

Shuowen

“枰,平也。从木,从平,平亦聲。”


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