平 · píng
flat, level, even; peaceful
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
flat, level, even; peaceful
- Mandarin
- píng
- Cantonese
- ping4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 平 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ヘイ ビョウ ヘン ベン ヒョウ たいら ひら たいらか たいらぐ たいらげる ひらたいKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 평
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5E73
- Radical
- 干 · 51
- Strokes
- 5 · Unihan
- Residual
- 2
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
5 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 平
Character connections
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History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- bjien · 房連 反切 · #615
- Middle Chinese
- bjaeng · 符兵 反切 · #875
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4969 · bjien = 山開三平仙並 · bjaeng = 梗開三平庚並
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- píng
- kCantonese
- ping4
- kDefinition
- flat, level, even; peaceful
- kTotalStrokes
- 5
- kRSUnicode
- 51.2
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:222
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- píng,pián,bìng,bēng 10407.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- píng 0879.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- píng 285.120
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- píng(1484)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- píng粵ping4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 房連 符兵
- Kangxi positions
- 0339.030
- Guangyun positions
- 139.30 185.45
- GSR references
- 0825a
- Cangjie
- MFJ
- Four-corner
- 1040.9