萍
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(bound form) duckweed
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 艸 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 萍
- Common rank
- #3,488
- Unicode
- U+840D
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Formation & memory
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How 萍 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 meaning “grass” + 泙 sound ()
Components 艹 泙
How to remember it
duckweed · Heisig RSH #2530
apple + 水 water
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 萍
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 萍水相逢 | strangers coming together by chance (idiom) | |
| 萍乡市 | Pingxiang, prefecture-level city in Jiangxi Province 江西省[Jiang1 xi1 Sheng3] | |
| 萍蓬草 | spatterdock (Nuphar pumilum), a type of lily | |
| 邓亚萍 | Deng Yaping (1973-), table tennis player, several times world and Olympic winner | |
| 萍乡 | see 萍鄉市|萍乡市[Ping2 xiang1 Shi4] | |
| 浮萍 | duckweed | |
| 邵飘萍 | Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism and founder of newspaper Beijing Press 京報… | |
| 萍踪 | (literary) the unsettled whereabouts of a wanderer |