屏 píng screen
screen; shield; to hold
How to remember 屏: 尸 corpse + 并 to combine = screen. At the Halloween party the scary corpse in the corner is Dad, who loves to combine jokes and scares, grinning behind a painted screen.
Component breakdown
屏 = 尸 corpse + 并 to combine
- 尸 corpse
- 并 to combine
- 丷 horns
- 开 open
- 一 one
- 廾 two hands
At the Halloween party the scary corpse in the corner is Dad, who loves to combine jokes and scares, grinning behind a painted screen.
How it is used
- As píng it means screen or to shield/block, almost always in compounds: 屏幕 (píngmù) screen, 屏蔽 (píngbì) to block/filter, 屏障 (píngzhàng) a barrier.
- 手机屏幕碎了 (shǒujī píngmù suì le) - the phone screen is shattered - is a very everyday sentence.
- 屏 has a second reading bǐng, used only in 屏住呼吸 (bǐngzhù hūxī) "to hold one's breath" - don't read that one as píng.
- Rarely stands alone; think of it as the "screen/shield" morpheme.