平 píng
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
平均
píngjūn
average; evenly
Characters in this word
均 jūn
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- Made of
- 土 soil, earth 匀 equal
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 平均每天八小时。 Píngjūn měi tiān bā xiǎoshí. Eight hours a day on average.
- 我们平均分吧。 Wǒmen píngjūn fēn ba. Let's share it evenly.
- 平均一人一个。 Píngjūn yī rén yí ge. One for each person on average.