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苹

píng

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 character level 1 Character

What 苹 means

1. (artemisia)
2. duckweed

Other readings

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

• píngused in {苹果|píng guǒ}

Example sentences

• 他在买苹果
  Tā zài mǎi píngguǒ
  He's buying apples.
• 多少苹果？
  How many apples are there?
• 几只苹果？
  How many apples are there?
• 我吃苹果。
  I eat an apple.
• 苹果掉了！
  The apple fell!
• 他洗苹果。
  He washed apples.

Words starting with 苹

• 苹果píng guǒapple
• 苹果核píng guǒ héapple core
• 苹果泥píng guǒ níapple sauce
• 苹果派píng guǒ pàiapple pie
• 苹果酒píng guǒ jiǔcider
• 苹果公司Píng guǒ Gōng sīApple Inc.
• 苹果手机Píng guǒ shǒu jīiPhone
• 苹果电脑Píng guǒ diàn nǎoApple computer; Mac; Macintosh
• 苹果汁píng guǒ zhīapple juice
• 苹果酱píng guǒ jiàngapple sauce; apple jam
• 苹果梨píng guǒ líAsian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
• 苹果馅饼píng guǒ xiàn bǐngapple pie
• 苹果蠹蛾píng guǒ dù écodling moth (Cydia pomonella)

Characters built on 平

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

• 评píngto discuss; to comment; to criticize
• 坪pínga plain; ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters…
• 鲆píngfamily of flatfish; sole
• 枰píngchess-like game

Characters that look like 苹

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

• 单dānbill; list; form
• 草cǎograss; straw; manuscript
• 革géanimal hide; leather; to reform
• 屏píng(standing) screen
• 旱hàndrought
• 枣zǎo(bound form) jujube; Chinese date (Zizyphus jujuba)

Sounds the same

Read píng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 瓶bottle; vase; pitcher
• 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

Where 苹 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 1 Characters · Set 23 (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read píng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.