An old folding screen stands in the corner of the living room.
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Read píng for the screen and partition senses: 屏幕 (screen), 屏风 (folding screen), 屏蔽 (to block). Read bǐng for the breath-holding sense, as in 屏住 and 屏息.
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.
