# 蓱

| 蓱 | U+84F1, &#34033; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84F1 |
| ← 蓰 [U+84F0] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蓲 → [U+84F2] |
| 蓱 | U+2F9A8, &#194984; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9A8 |
| ← 䔫 [U+2F9A7] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 蓳 → [U+2F9A9] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蓱 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿水廿廿 (TETT), four-corner 4434$_1$, composition ⿱艹洴 or ⿱艹⿰氵幷)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1047, character 67
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31727
* Dae Jaweon: page 1515, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3284, character 11
* Unihan data for U+84F1
* Unihan data for U+2F9A8

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 鵧 | *bi |
| 駢 | *beːn |
| 胼 | *beːn |
| 骿 | *beːn |
| 軿 | *beːn, *beːŋ |
| 賆 | *beːn |
| 跰 | *preŋs, *beːn |
| 恲 | *pʰreŋ |
| 鮩 | *breŋʔ, *beːŋʔ, *biɡ |
| 絣 | *preːŋ |
| 拼 | *preːŋ |
| 迸 | *preːŋs |
| 姘 | *pʰreːŋ, *pʰeːŋ |
| 皏 | *pʰreːŋʔ |
| 併 | *breːŋʔ, *breːŋs, *peŋʔ, *peŋs, *beːŋʔ |
| 并 | *peŋ, *peŋs |
| 栟 | *peŋ |
| 屏 | *peŋ, *peŋʔ, *beːŋ |
| 箳 | *peŋ, *beːŋ |
| 餅 | *peŋʔ |
| 鉼 | *peŋʔ |
| 摒 | *peŋs |
| 庰 | *beŋs |
| 偋 | *beŋs |
| 艵 | *pʰeːŋ |
| 頩 | *pʰeːŋ, *pʰeːŋʔ |
| 竮 | *pʰeːŋ, *beːŋ |
| 瓶 | *beːŋ |
| 缾 | *beːŋ |
| 蛢 | *beːŋ |
| 荓 | *beːŋ |
| 郱 | *beːŋ |
| 洴 | *beːŋ |
| 蓱 | *beːŋ |

### Etymology 1

From Austroasiatic; compare Khmer ភ្លៀង (phliəng, “rain”) (Schuessler, 2007), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(p)liɲ ~ *(p)liəɲ ~ (p)liiɲ (“sky, rain”) .

#### 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: beng
Rime :
| Character | 蓱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 青 (125) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 薄經切 |
| Baxter | beng |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /beŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /beŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bɛŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bɛjŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /beŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /bieŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /bʱieŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | píng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ping$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*beːŋ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蓱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 958 |
| Phonetic component | 并 |
| Rime group | 耕 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 瓶 |
| Old Chinese | /*beːŋ/ |
| Notes | 同萍 |

#### Definitions

蓱
* (mythology) Rain Master
    From: The Verses of Chu, 4th century BCE – 2nd century CE
    Píng háo qǐyǔ, héyǐ xīng zhī? [Pinyin]
    The pluvial sprite cries out for the rain to fall; how does he bring it about?

#### Compounds

* 蓱翳

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 蓱 – see 萍 (“duckweed; to wander; to travel around; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 萍).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): へい (hei)、びょう (byō)
* Kun: うきくさ (ukikusa)

## Korean
### Hanja

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