萍

萍	U+840D, 萍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-840D

← 萌
[U+840C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

萎 →
[U+840E]

Translingual

Han character

萍 (radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿水一十 (TEMJ), four-corner 4414₉, composition ⿱艹泙)

References

KangXi: page 1041, character 7

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31266

Dae Jaweon: page 1500, character 1

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3239, character 10

Unihan data for U+840D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		萍
variant forms		苹

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): píng (ping²)
(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ping⁴
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): phêng / pêng
(Teochew, Peng'im): pêng⁵ / pio⁵ / piê⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: píng
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄥˊ
  - Wade–Giles: p'ing²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyng
  - IPA ^(key): /pʰiŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ping⁴
  - Yale: pìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ping⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ping⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /pʰɪŋ²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phêng
  - Tâi-lô: phîng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pheeng
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiɪŋ²³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /pʰiɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiɪŋ¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pêng
  - Tâi-lô: pîng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: peeng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /piɪŋ²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: pêng⁵ / pio⁵ / piê⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phêng / phiô / phiê
  - IPA ^(key): /pʰeŋ⁵⁵/, /pʰio⁵⁵/, /pʰie⁵⁵/

Note:

pêng5 - literary;
pio5/piê5 - semantic (piê5 - Chaozhou).

Middle Chinese: /beŋ/▼

Rime
Character	萍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	薄經切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/beŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/beŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/bɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/beŋ/
Wang Li	/bieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	píng

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*beːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	萍
Reading #	1/1
No.	9830
Phonetic component	平
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	瓶
Old Chinese	/*beːŋ/

Definitions

萍

duckweed (often a symbol of floating existence)
to wander; to travel around

Compounds

人生如萍
斷梗流萍／断梗流萍
斷梗飄萍／断梗飘萍
楚昭萍實／楚昭萍实
浪跡萍蹤／浪迹萍踪
浮萍 (fúpíng)
浮萍大海
浮萍斷梗／浮萍断梗
浮萍浪梗
漂萍
萍寄
萍實／萍实

萍梗
萍水
萍水相交
萍水相逢 (píngshuǐxiāngféng)
萍水相遇
萍水相遭
萍泊
萍浮
萍聚
萍蓬
萍蹤／萍踪 (píngzōng)

萍蹤不定／萍踪不定
萍蹤梗跡／萍踪梗迹
萍蹤浪影／萍踪浪影
萍蹤浪跡／萍踪浪迹
萍蹤靡定／萍踪靡定
萍鄉煤礦／萍乡煤矿
萍鄉縣／萍乡县
萍飄蓬轉／萍飘蓬转
青萍
風萍浪跡／风萍浪迹
麗萍／丽萍

Japanese

Kanji

萍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: びょう (byō)
Kan-on: へい (hei)
Kun: うきくさ (ukikusa), よもぎ (yomogi)

Korean

Hanja

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

Definitions

개구리밥 (gaeguribap): duckweed

Compounds

浮萍草 (부평초, bupyeongcho); duckweed
浮萍轉蓬 (부평전봉, bypyeongjeonbong); to wander about aimlessly
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Vietnamese

Han character

萍 (bình, bềnh, phềnh, phình)

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