pīng
onomatopoeia #15,182

Meanings

  1. 1 (onomatopoeia) bang! (sound of a gong, gun firing, etc.)

Examples

Pīng de yī shēng, mén bèi tī kāi le.
Bang! The door was kicked open.
Qiāng xiǎng le, pīng pīng liǎng shēng.
The gun went off — bang bang, two shots.

Tips

usage
is less common than (pēng), which is the standard onomatopoeia for banging sounds. Both are used in the pattern X to describe a sudden loud noise.

Components

radical
kǒu
mouth
Left mouth radical — universal flag for onomatopoeia. Placing on the left signals 'this character represents a sound, not a meaning,' the trick used in , , , , . Without it, the right side is just a flat ; with it, the character is reserved for sound effects.
phonetic
píng
level; flat (here phonetic)
Right supplies the sound — píng → pīng, only the tone shifts. The 'flat' meaning is irrelevant. This is a rare colloquial onomatopoeia, mostly written (stone radical) in standard usage; is the mouth-radical variant flagging the noise as a struck-mouth sound like a gong's clang or gunshot's crack.

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Stroke Order

pīng