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瓶

píng

HSK 3 Character Measure word 个

What 瓶 means

1. bottle
2. vase
3. pitcher
4. classifier for wine and liquids

Other readings

瓶 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• píngvariant of {瓶|píng}

Example sentences

• 把瓶子打开。
  Open the bottle.
• 请打开瓶子。
  Please open the bottle.
• 请来瓶红酒。
  A bottle of red wine, please.
• 这瓶是空的。
  This bottle is empty.
• 去买三瓶可乐。
  Qù mǎi sān píng kělè.
  Go and buy three bottles of coke.
• 我要一瓶冰水。
  Wǒ yào yī píng bīngshuǐ.
  I want a bottle of ice water.

Words starting with 瓶

• 瓶子píng zibottle
• 瓶颈píng jǐngneck of a bottle; (fig.) bottleneck; problem that impedes progress
• 瓶盖píng gàibottle cap
• 瓶装píng zhuāngbottled
• 瓶塞píng sāibottle cork; bottle stopper
• 瓶领píng lǐngbottle collar
• 瓶塞钻píng sāi zuàncorkscrew
• 瓶装水píng zhuāng shuǐbottled water
• 瓶胆píng dǎnthe vacuum bottle within the outer case of a thermos
• 瓶鼻海豚píng bí hǎi túnbottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
• 瓶胚píng pēipreform
• 瓶盂píng yújar; flask; vase

Words containing 瓶

• 花瓶huā píngflower vase; (fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face…
• 金瓶梅Jīn píng méiJinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious…
• 奶瓶nǎi píngbaby's feeding bottle
• 电瓶diàn píngaccumulator; battery (for storing electricity)
• 热水瓶rè shuǐ píngthermos bottle; vacuum bottle; hot water dispenser (appliance)
• 药瓶yào píngmedicine bottle
• 守口如瓶shǒu kǒu rú pínglit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom); tight-lipped; reticent…
• 暖瓶nuǎn píngthermos
• 吊瓶diào pínginfusion bag or bottle (for an IV)
• 安瓶ān píngampoule (loanword)
• 宝瓶Bǎo píngAquarius (star sign)
• 气瓶qì pínggas cylinder; air bottle; air tank (diving)
• 烧瓶shāo pínglaboratory flask
• 球瓶qiú píngpin (ten-pin bowling)
• 量瓶liáng píngmeasuring flask; graduated measuring cylinder
• 银瓶yín píngsilver bottle
• 保温瓶bǎo wēn píngthermos
• 宝特瓶bǎo tè píngplastic bottle
• 宝瓶座Bǎo píng zuòAquarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac); also called 水瓶座
• 拖油瓶tuō yóu píng(derog.) (of a woman) to bring one's children into a second marriage…
• 暖水瓶nuǎn shuǐ píngthermos flask or bottle
• 水瓶座Shuǐ píng zuòAquarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
• 漂流瓶piāo liú píngmessage in a bottle
• 燃烧瓶rán shāo píngMolotov cocktail

Characters built on 并

These share the phonetic component 并 (bìng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 屏píng(standing) screen
• 饼bǐnground flat cake; cookie; cake

Characters that look like 瓶

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 距jùto be at a distance of ... from; to be apart from; (bound form) distance…
• 既jìalready; since; both... (and...)
• 舰jiànwarship
• 挟xié(bound form) to clasp under the arm; (bound form) to coerce…
• 羟qiǎnghydroxyl (radical)
• 胧lóngused in 朦胧

Sounds the same

Read píng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 苹(artemisia); duckweed
• 评to discuss; to comment; to criticize
• 平flat; level; smooth; to make even; to level; equal; on the same level
• 凭to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of
• 屏(standing) screen
• 萍duckweed
• 坪a plain; ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters…
• 冯to gallop; to assist; to attack
• 呯(onomatopoeia) bang! (gong, gun firing etc)
• 玶name of one kind of jade
• 鲆family of flatfish; sole
• 帡used in 帡幪