Unicode: U+840D

Pinyin: píng

Definition

* 一年生草本植物,浮生水面,叶子扁平,表面绿色,背面紫红色,叶下生须根,开白花,称"浮萍",亦称"青萍"、"紫萍",多用以喻不定的生活或行踪。 ~泊。~踪。~水相逢

duckweed; wandering, traveling

Structure

萍 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_840D
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
81_E565

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC