pīng

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