píng

duckweed

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

grass

泙 sound component

  Sound component

píng

  

roar

Evolution

萍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
萍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

píng

duckweed; wandering, traveling

Most common words with 萍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

duckweed

萍水相逢

strangers coming together by chance (idiom)

浮萍

duckweed

萍乡

Pingxiang prefecture level city in Jiangxi

邓亚萍

Deng Yaping (1973-), table tennis player, several times world and Olympic winner

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2180th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+840D

Shuowen

“萍,苹也,水艸也。从水、苹,苹亦聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License