Chinese

評

píng
to comment on; to discuss; to debate
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 3
  • radical 言
  • 12 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *beŋ, *beŋs): semantic 言 + phonetic 平 (OC *ben, *beŋ).

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Lineage

  • meaningChinese言 “to say; to speak; to talk”
  • soundChinese平 “level; even; flat”
    • componentChinese八 “eight”
    • soundChinese釆 “to distinguish; to discriminate”
    • componentChinese亏 “exhaled air”
    • meaningChinese二 “two”

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