平 píng
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
平坦
píngtǎn
flat; even
Characters in this word
坦 tǎn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这条路平坦。 Zhè tiáo lù píngtǎn. This road is flat.
- 地面很平坦。 Dìmiàn hěn píngtǎn. The ground is very even.
- 公园小路平坦。 Gōngyuán xiǎolù píngtǎn. The park path is flat.