屏 · píng
folding screen, shield
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
folding screen, shield
- 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 屏 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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Korean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
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.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5C4F
- Radical
- 尸 · 44
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 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 屏
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- pjieng · 府盈 反切 · #923
- Middle Chinese
- beng · 薄經 反切 · #943
- Middle Chinese
- pjiengX · 必郢 反切 · #1890
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 7323 · pjieng = 梗開三平清幫 · beng = 梗開四平青並 · pjiengX = 梗開三上清幫
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
- folding screen, shield
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 44.6
- kGradeLevel
- 5
- kTGH
- 2013:1724
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- píng,bǐng,bìng,bīng 20973.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bǐng 0077.030 · píng 0878.100
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bǐng 025.100 · píng 286.090
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- píng(10)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- píng粵ping4 bǐng粵bing2
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 府盈 薄經 必郢
- Kangxi positions
- 0301.280
- Guangyun positions
- 192.36 197.45 318.30
- GSR references
- 0824f
- Cangjie
- STT
- Four-corner
- 7724.1