平山 (Píng shān) — Pingshan (place name, referring to either Pings…

Definition

noun

Pingshan (place name, referring to either Pingshan County in Hebei or Pingshan District in Liaoning)

Easily confused

平山。
Píng shān Zài hé běi shěng xī bù.
Pingshan is in the western part of Hebei Province.
平山。
Wǒ xià ge yuè yào qù Píng shān lǚ xíng.
I'm going to travel to Pingshan next month.
平山。
Píng shān De fēng jǐng hěn měi.
Pingshan's scenery is very beautiful.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

平山 comes from 平 (“flat”) plus 山 (“mountain”), naming a place associated with a level mountain.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

The origin is uncertain. One explanation combines 八 (division) and 亏 (exhaled air) to show smooth speech.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

山 shows three mountain peaks side by side.