蓱

See also: 萍

蓱	U+84F1, 蓱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84F1

← 蓰
[U+84F0]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蓲 →
[U+84F2]

蓱	U+2F9A8, 蓱 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 4434₁, 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

trad.		蓱
simp. ^#		蓱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (并) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	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 (ping²)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ping⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: píng
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: píng
  - Wade–Giles: pʻing²
  - Yale: píng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyng
  - Palladius: пин (pin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ping⁴
  - Yale: pìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ping⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ping⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	píng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ping⁴

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
- 蓱號起雨，何以興之？ [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  蓱号起雨，何以兴之？ [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd 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

蓱

(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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