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平

Mandarin · pinyin píng#

flat; level; smooth
to make even; to level
equal; on the same level
(bound form) fair; impartial
to tie; to draw
(bound form) average; ordinary
(bound form) calm; peaceful
(bound form) to quell; to suppress; to put down
(abbr. for 平聲 píng shēng)
(coll.) square meter (abbr. for 平方米 píng fāng mǐ)

Mandarin · pinyin Píng#

surname Ping

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平: píng · flat, level, even; peaceful

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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 18 senses · 2 Cantonese readings

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

peng4 · ping4

Cantonese word readings for 平. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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level; even; flat
equal; fair
equal
to level; to make level
calm; peaceful
to calm down; to make peaceful; to quiet down
to pacify
ordinary; common; mediocre; average
(Chinese phonetics) level tone (one of the four tones in Middle Chinese)
(Cantonese, Hakka, Northern Min) cheap; inexpensive
(Southern Min, Hakka) the same
(historical) short for 北平 (Běipíng)
(abbreviation, alt-of) short for 平方米 (píngfāngmǐ, “square metre”) Used with numbers without classifiers.
A surname, number 95 of the Baijiaxing

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(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 辨

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(obsolete) to control prices

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(Hokkien) to win back (what was lost)
(Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to rectify by making it flat (of land, etc.)

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