瓶 (píng): bottle, vase, pitcher
瓶 (píng) is a Chinese character meaning “bottle.” Classified as HSK Level 3 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 并 (phonetic) and 瓦 (semantic). It ranks #1688 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 瓶 pottery. Its radical form 瓦 (tile) appears in many related characters such as 瓦 (wǎ, roof tile), 瓷 (cí, chinaware).
Definitions
- bottle
- vase
- pitcher
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 瓶
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 花瓶 | huā píng | flower vase |
| 守口如瓶 | shǒu kǒu rú píng | lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom) |
| 瓶装 | píng zhuāng | bottled |
| 药瓶 | yào píng | medicine bottle |
| 奶瓶 | nǎi píng | baby's feeding bottle |
| 瓶盖 | píng gài | bottle cap |
| 开瓶器 | kāi píng qì | bottle opener |
| 瓶颈 | píng jǐng | neck of a bottle |
| 瓶塞 | píng sāi | bottle cork |
| 电瓶 | diàn píng | accumulator |
| 烧瓶 | shāo píng | laboratory flask |
| 热水瓶 | rè shuǐ píng | thermos bottle |
| 电瓶车 | diàn píng chē | battery-powered vehicle |
| 吊瓶 | diào píng | infusion bag or bottle (for an IV) |
| 保温瓶 | bǎo wēn píng | thermos |
瓶 appears in 60 compound words: 20 as the first character, 52 as the last, and 28 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 瓶 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
请把这瓶水递给前面那位老人。
Qǐng bǎ zhè píng shuǐ dì gěi qiánmiàn nà wèi lǎorén.
Please pass this bottle of water to the elderly person in front.
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ài sī mó 爾 tū pò guāng yuán píng 頸 gōng lǜ tí shēng zhì qiān wǎ 拚 產 néng zēng . . .
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開工首日開金庫 草屯農會發送2088瓶發財水
開 gōng shǒu rì 開 jīn 庫 cǎo tún 農 會 發 sòng píng 發 財 shuǐ
On the first day of work, the vault was opened. Cautun Agricultural Association distributed 2,088 bottles of prosperity water.
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zài yù píng 頸 載 rén dēng yuè rèn 務 kǒng yán zhì yuè
NASA's manned mission to the moon delayed until April
再给我一瓶啤酒好吗？
Zài gěi wǒ yī píng píjiǔ hǎo ma?
Could I get one more beer, please?
为什么锅子里会有电瓶？
Wèishénme guōzi lǐ huì yǒudiàn píng?
Why are there batteries in that pot?
你喝了十一瓶啤酒了！
Nǐ hē le shíyī píng píjiǔ le!
You’ve had eleven bottles of beer!
她拿了其中一个玻璃花瓶。
Tā ná le qízhōng yī gè bōli huāpíng.
She picked up one of the glass vases.
Character Family
瓦 Radical Family — Characters sharing the tile radical
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