IDENTITY
苹píngapple
HSK 1Top 1550
CORE MEANING
apple
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.appleHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 艹grass radical (cǎo)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱艹平
- plants
- gives the sound píng
USAGE
Common words
苹果píngguǒapple
苹果手机píngguǒ shǒujīiPhone
Graded examples
我每天吃一个苹果。Wǒ měitiān chī yí ge píngguǒ.HSK1
I eat an apple every day.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 平
LEARNING
Memory aid
A plant (艹) whose fruit is flat-round (平) — the apple. (苹 in 苹果.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1550
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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