How to Write 泙 (píng) — Meaning “Sound of splashing water.”

Imagine a flat, calm lake (平) and then a stone skipping across it, making a "píng píng" splashing sound. The water radical 氵 reminds you it's about water, and 平 gives the sound of the splash.

Write the left radical 氵 first as three dots, then the right part 平: top horizontal stroke, then a dot, then two vertical strokes, and finally the bottom vertical stroke. Keep the right side slightly narrower than the left to balance the character.

泙 has a water radical with 平 (flat) and means splashing water. 㳄 (cán) has a different right component (欠, meaning yawn or lack) and is a rare character for saliva or mucus. 汊 (chà) also has water radical but right side is 叉 (fork), meaning a branching river or stream.

泙 is very rare in modern Chinese and appears mostly in classical literature or poetry to describe water sounds. It is not in HSK and is mainly seen in phrases like 泙泙 (píng píng) for splashing sounds or 泙湃 (píng pài) for surging waves, but even these are uncommon today.

Common words containing 泙 include: 泙泙 (píng píng) — Splashing sound.; 泙湃 (píng pài) — Surging (waves).; 泙水 (píng shuǐ) — Peng River..