The whole room held its breath, waiting for the result.
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The bǐng reading covers holding back and shutting out: 屏住 (to hold in), 屏息 (to hold one's breath), 屏气 (to stop breathing momentarily), and the literary 屏除 (to do away with).
户 at the upper-left, contracted by one stroke in this corner, depicts a single door leaf. It anchors 屏 in the panel-and-partition idea: a 屏风 is a movable indoor screen. The radical is conventionally listed as 尸 despite the visible door shape.
并 inside supplies the sound, bìng drifting to píng through b/p alternation. It originally pictured two people side by side, meaning to merge, an image that suits a folding screen: panels combined into one barrier.
