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píng

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píng Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
píng | ping2
English translation
duckweed; to travel, to wander

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About píng

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

píng

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

Learning hint

grass

Etymology of píng

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

艹泙

Semantic compound

cǎo

Phonetic compound

píng

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Example sentences using píng

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1962 Nián , 薛亚萍 Jīng 陈少霖引荐 yǐn jiàn bài 张君秋大师 dà shī .

In 1962, Yaping introduced by Chen Shaolin Master Zhang Junqiu al.

Words with píng

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
píng duckweed píng
萍水相逢 píng shuǐ xiāng féng strangers coming together by chance (idiom)萍水相逢 píng shuǐ xiāng féng
浮萍 fú píng duckweed浮萍 fú píng
萍乡 Píng xiāng Pingxiang prefecture level city in Jiangxi萍鄉
邓亚萍 Dèng Yà píng Deng Yaping (1973-), table tennis player, several times world and Olympic winner鄧亞萍
萍乡市 Píng xiāng shì Pingxiang prefecture level city in Jiangxi萍鄉市
萍蓬草 píng péng cǎo spatterdock (Nuphar pumilum), a type of lily萍蓬草 píng péng cǎo

píng Decomposition & Compounds

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