pīng
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 graceful; of a slender woman's bearing (used only in 娉婷)

Examples

娉婷袅袅十三
Pīngtíng niǎoniǎo shísān yú.
A graceful girl of about thirteen.

Tips

history
is not used independently in modern Chinese; it occurs almost only in the binome 娉婷 (slender and graceful), famous from Du Mu's Tang poem. It joins the woman radical with the phonetic , which also seeds .
register
Literary and bound; appears only in 娉婷 and classical verse, not as a free word in speech.

Components

radical
woman; female
The woman radical on the left ties the word to describing a young woman — specifically her slender, graceful bearing.
phonetic
pīng
phonetic element
Supplies the sound, matching the pīng reading. The same phonetic appears in and ; it carries no meaning here.

Stroke Order

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