# 苹

| 苹 | U+82F9, &#33529; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82F9 |
| ← 苸 [U+82F8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 苺 → [U+82FA] |

## Translingual
### Han character

苹 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿一火十 (TMFJ), four-corner 4440$_9$, composition ⿱艹平)

#### Derived characters

* 𫮉, 𡞴, 𬃟, 𮳰, 𬍷, 𡐵, 𧪐

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1025, character 10
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30823
* Dae Jaweon: page 1484, character 16
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3189, character 4
* Unihan data for U+82F9

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 平 | *ben, *beŋ |
| 怦 | *pʰreːŋ |
| 砰 | *pʰreːŋ |
| 抨 | *pʰreːŋ |
| 閛 | *pʰreːŋ |
| 伻 | *pʰreːŋ |
| 評 | *beŋ, *beŋs |
| 坪 | *beŋ |
| 苹 | *beŋ |
| 枰 | *beŋ, *beŋs |
| 泙 | *beŋ |
| 蚲 | *beŋ |
| 胓 | *beŋ |
| 匉 | *pʰreːŋ |
| 萍 | *beːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *beŋ) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 平 (OC *ben, *beŋ).

### Etymology 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 苹 – see 蘋 (“apple; Chinese chestnut”). (This character is the simplified form of 蘋).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

#### Usage notes

This simplified glyph is used in 苹果 (píngguǒ).

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): píng (ping$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄥˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ping$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: píng
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄥˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: píng
*** Wade–Giles: pʻing$^2$
*** Yale: píng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyng
*** Palladius: пин (pin)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰiŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ping$^4$
*** Yale: pìhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ping$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ping$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɪŋ²¹/
* Middle Chinese: bjaeng
Rime :
| Character | 苹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 庚 (111) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 符兵切 |
| Baxter | bjaeng |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bˠiæŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bᵚiaŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /biaŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /biajŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /biɐŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭɐŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /bʱi̯ɐŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | píng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ping$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤeŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*beŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 苹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | píng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ beng › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b]ˁeŋ/ |
| English | duckweed |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 苹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9821 |
| Phonetic component | 平 |
| Rime group | 耕 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 平 |
| Old Chinese | /*beŋ/ |

#### Definitions

苹
* Alternative form of 萍 (“duckweed”)
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Yōuyōu lù míng, shí yě zhī píng. [Pinyin]
    With pleased sounds the deer call to one another, eating the celery of the fields.
* Alternative name for 藾蕭／𰱾萧 (“Artemisia argyi”).

##### Compounds

* 苹縈

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03814

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: びょう (byō)
* Kan-on: へい (hei)
* Kan’yō-on: ひょう (hyō)
* Kun: うきくさ (ukikusa)、よもぎ (yomogi)、あし (ashi)

#### Compounds

* 苹(へい)果(か) (heika), 苹(ひょう)果(か) (hyōka): apple (fruit)

## Korean
### Hanja

苹 • (pyeong) (hangeul 평, revised pyeong, McCune–Reischauer p'yŏng, Yale phyeng)
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