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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿水一十 (TEMJ), four-corner 44149)

  1. duckweed (symbol of floating existence)
  2. wandering, traveling

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.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ben, *beŋ
*pʰreːŋ
*pʰreːŋ
*pʰreːŋ
*pʰreːŋ
*pʰreːŋ
*beŋ, *beŋs
*beŋ, *beŋs
*beŋ
*beŋ, *beŋs
*beŋ
*beŋ
*beŋ
*pʰreːŋ
*beːŋ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
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
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9830
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*beːŋ/

Definitions

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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 (píngshuǐ xiàngféng)
  • 萍水相遇
  • 萍水相遭
  • 萍泊
  • 萍浮
  • 萍聚
  • 萍蓬
  • 萍蹤萍踪
  • 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

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(pyeong) (hangeul , revised pyeong, McCune-Reischauer p'yŏng, Yale phyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(bình, bềnh, phềnh, phình)

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