(péng) - friend (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
péngTraditional: 朋
Translation
friend (bound morpheme)
Word origin
Originally a pictograph of two strings of cowrie shells, later read as a pair or companion. It is bound, almost always paired with 友 (yǒu) in 朋友 (péngyou, friend).
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- two strings of cowrie shells, depicting a pair
Stroke order
朋
Examples
。
He is my good friend.
。
I have many friends.
互。
Friends should help each other.
。
They have been friends since childhood.
。
I invited a friend over for dinner.
朋 (péng) means friend and is bound, almost always paired with 友 (yǒu) in 朋友 (péngyǒu).
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 朋.
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