凭
píng HSK5

lean on

凭 (憑) píng
rely on preposition
to rely on; to depend on; on the basis of

凭票入场。

píng piào rù​chǎng.

Admission is by ticket only.

no matter preposition
no matter (how, what, etc.); regardless of

凭你怎么说，他也不听。

píng nǐ zěn​me shuō, tā yě bù tīng.

No matter what you say, he won't listen.

proof punctuation
evidence, proof, or certificate

空口无凭。

kōng​kǒu wú píng.

Oral statements alone carry no weight as evidence.

lean against preposition
to lean against or rest upon physically

他凭着窗户向外看。

tā píng zhe chuāng​hu xiàng wài kàn.

He leaned against the window and looked out.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,410th most common 80.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,565th most common 38.9 per million appears in 21% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
39.1 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text
48.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
憑
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+51ED

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)