péng

bury

Components

Meaning component
earth

earth

Sound component
péng friend

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpongHpˤəŋ-sput coffin in grave
Zhengzhangpɯːŋs
pʰɯːŋ
bɯːŋ

說文解字

喪葬下土也。从土朋聲。《春秋傳》曰:“朝而堋。”《禮》謂之封,《周官》謂之窆。《虞書》曰:“堋淫于家。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica