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平方

píng fāng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

平方 (píng fāng) means "square (unit/math)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 平方 means

1. square (as in square foot, square mile, square root)

The characters in 平方

• 平píngflat; level; smooth; to make even; to level; equal; on the same level
• 方fāngsquare; power or involution (math.); upright

Example sentences

• 二的平方等于四。
  èr de píngfāng děngyú sì.
  Two squared equals four.
• 大概三平方英里。
  It's about three square miles.
• 工厂的面积是1000平方米。
  Gōngchǎng de miànjī shì 1000 píngfāngmǐ.
  The area of the factory is 1,000 square meters.
• 我的老师教我负数也可以开平方根。
  My teacher taught me that you can take the square root of a negative number.
• 台湾岛的面积是三万六千平方公里。
  The Island of Taiwan's surface area is thirty-six thousand square kilometers.
• 中国陆地的总面积是960万平方公里，是亚洲面积最大的国家，居世界第三位。
  Zhōngguó lùdì de zǒng miànjī shì 960 wàn píngfānggōnglǐ, shì Yàzhōu miànjī zuì dà de guójiā, jū shìjiè dìsānwèi.
  The mainland of China covers 96,000,000 square kilometers, and it is the largest country in Asia, as well as the third largest in the world.

Words starting with 平方

• 平方米píng fāng mǐsquare meter
• 平方公里píng fāng gōng lǐsquare kilometer
• 平方根píng fāng gēnsquare root
• 平方反比律píng fāng fǎn bǐ lǜinverse square law (physics)
• 平方反比定律píng fāng fǎn bǐ dìng lǜinverse-square law (physics)
• 平方平均数píng fāng píng jūn shùroot mean square (RMS); quadratic root
• 平方英尺píng fāng yīng chǐsquare foot (unit of area equal to 0.093 m²)
• 平方千米píng fāng qiān mǐsquare kilometer

Words containing 平方

• 最小平方法zuì xiǎo píng fāng fǎmethod of least squares (math.) (Tw)

Where 平方 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Equality, Balance & Average (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read píng fāng correctly.
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