屏
屏 — byeong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 병풍 병
- Romanization
- byeong
- English
- folding screen, shield
- Mandarin
- píng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ビョウ, ヘイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- おお.う しりぞ.く びょう.ぶ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,002 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 尸 (44, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5C4F
Parts that make up 屏
How 屏 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 屏 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 尸, 并.
Japanese words with 屏
- 金屏風きんびょうぶ folding screen covered with gold leaf
- 屏風びょうぶ folding screen
- 屏居へいきょ living in retirement
- 屏息へいそく bated breath; being cowed into silence
- 障屏しょうへい partitions in a Japanese house (e.g. screens, sliding doors, etc.)
- 屏禁へいきん solitary confinement
- 藩屏はんぺい fence; bulwark; guarding wall
- 屏風岩びょうぶいわ sheer cliff
- 枕屏風まくらびょうぶ bed(side) screen
- 屏風絵びょうぶえ picture drawn on a folding screen
- 重屏禁じゅうへいきん solitary confinement in a dark cell without bedding (for up to one week)
- 南蛮屏風なんばんびょうぶ painted folding screen with scenes of early European visitors to Japan
Other hanja read “병”
Other hanja with radical 尸
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