píng HSK7

duckweed

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
píng, pēng roar

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangbeːŋ
Unicodebheng

說文解字

苹也。水艸也。从水、苹,苹亦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica