萍 píng duckweed
怎么记住“萍”: 艹 grass + 氵 water + 平 level = duckweed. Grandpa points at the tiny green grass covering the water, lying so level that the ducklings try to walk on it, and says "That is duckweed."
部件结构
萍 = 艹 grass + 泙
- 艹 grass
- 泙
- 氵 water
- 平 level
- 干 do
- 丷 horns
Grandpa points at the tiny green grass covering the water, lying so level that the ducklings try to walk on it, and says "That is duckweed."
用法
- Means 'duckweed', a rootless plant drifting on water - used almost only in 萍水相逢 (píngshuǐ-xiāngféng), of strangers meeting by chance like duckweed converging on water.
- The image is of a fleeting, rootless encounter; the character carries that connotation of drifting and impermanence.