崩
bēng HSK7

rupture

Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 朋 represents the sound.

Components

山
山 Meaning component
shān mountain
朋
朋 Sound component
péng friend

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 4 verified)

蹦嘣镚繃

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpongCə.pˤəŋcollapse (v., of a mountain)
Zhengzhangpɯːŋ
Unicodebəng

Sources

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