pīng​tíng

beauty

pīng, pìn beautiful

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

woman

Sound component
pīng chivalrous knight

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartphjiengHp.[r̥ ]eŋ-sinquire about (marriage)
Zhengzhangpʰleŋs
Unicodepiɛng

說文解字

問也。从女甹聲。

Sources

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

tíng pretty

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman
Sound component
tíng pavilion

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdeːŋ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang