平 píng
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
平面
píngmiàn
plane; flat surface; two-dimensional
Characters in this word
面 miàn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 面 — face
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 设计师把复杂的空间关系压缩到一张平面图里，便于业主比较方案。 Shèjìshī bǎ fùzá de kōngjiān guānxì yāsuō dào yì zhāng píngmiàn tú lǐ, biànyú yèzhǔ bǐjiào fāng'àn. The designer compressed complex spatial relationships into a floor plan so that the client could compare the proposals more easily.
- 这幅画是平面的，没有立体感。 Zhè fú huà shì píngmiàn de, méiyǒu lìtǐgǎn. This painting is flat and has no sense of depth.
- 在平面上画一个立方体并不容易。 Zài píngmiàn shàng huà yí ge lìfāngtǐ bìng bù róngyì. It is not easy to draw a cube on a flat surface.