Hanja Analyzer
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

  • 尸 주검 시 구부린 몸몸과 몸으로 하는 일, 집
  • 并 아우를 병 나란히 선 사람 둘아우르는 일. ‘병’ 계열의 소리

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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