苹

See also: 蘋

苹 U+82F9, 苹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82F9 ← 苸 [U+82F8] CJK Unified Ideographs 苺 → [U+82FA]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

苹 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿一火十 (TMFJ), four-corner 4440₉, composition ⿱艹平)

Derived characters

• 𡞴

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1025, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30823
• Dae Jaweon: page 1484, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3189, character 4
• Unihan data for U+82F9

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (平) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
平	*ben, *beŋ
怦	*pʰreːŋ
砰	*pʰreːŋ
抨	*pʰreːŋ
閛	*pʰreːŋ
伻	*pʰreːŋ
評	*beŋ, *beŋs
坪	*beŋ
苹	*beŋ
枰	*beŋ, *beŋs
泙	*beŋ
蚲	*beŋ
胓	*beŋ
匉	*pʰreːŋ
萍	*beːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *beŋ) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 平 (OC *ben, *beŋ).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 苹 – see 蘋 (“apple; Chinese chestnut”). (This character is the simplified form of 蘋).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Usage notes

This simplified glyph is used in 苹果 (píngguǒ).

Etymology 2

trad.		苹
simp. #		苹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): píng (ping²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ping⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: píng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: píng
    • Wade–Giles: pʻing²
    • Yale: píng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyng
    • Palladius: пин (pin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ping⁴
    • Yale: pìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ping⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ping⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: bjaeng

Rime
Character	苹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	符兵切
Baxter	bjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠiæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚiaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/biaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biajŋ/
Li Rong	/biɐŋ/
Wang Li	/bĭɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	píng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ping4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤeŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*beŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	苹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	píng
Middle Chinese	‹ beng ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁeŋ/
English	duckweed
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	苹
Reading #	1/1
No.	9821
Phonetic component	平
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	平
Old Chinese	/*beŋ/

Definitions

苹

1. Alternative form of 萍 (“duckweed”)

   • 呦呦鹿鳴，食野之苹。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     呦呦鹿鸣，食野之苹。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yōuyōu lù míng, shí yě zhī píng. [Pinyin]

     With pleased sounds the deer call to one another, eating the celery of the fields.

2. Alternative name for 藾蕭／𰱾萧 (“Artemisia argyi”).

Compounds

• 苹縈

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03814

Japanese

Kanji

苹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: びょう (byō)^{←びやう (byau, historical)}
• Kan-on: へい (hei)^{←へい (fei, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←ひやう (fyau, historical)}
• Kun: うきくさ (ukikusa); よもぎ (yomogi); あし (ashi)

Compounds

• 苹(へい)果(か) (heika), 苹(ひょう)果(か) (hyōka): apple (fruit)

Korean

Hanja

苹 • (pyeong) (hangeul 평, revised pyeong, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏng, Yale phyeng)

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