Apple in Chinese (Mandarin): 苹果 (píngguǒ)
苹果
píngguǒ
apple
- Simplified
- 苹果
- Traditional
- 蘋果
- Pinyin
- píngguǒ
- Typed as
- pingguo
Use it in a sentence
我吃一个苹果。
我吃一個蘋果。
I eat an apple.
The characters in 苹果
苹 / 蘋
Apple. 艹 (grass) is on top.
8 strokes
果
Fruit. A tree (木) with fruit on top.
8 strokes
苹 sounds like 平 (píng, peace), so in China people give apples on Christmas Eve, 平安夜 (Píng'ān Yè).
More examples with 苹果
苹果很甜。
蘋果很甜。
Píngguǒ hěn tián.
The apple is sweet.
我每天吃一个苹果。
我每天吃一個蘋果。
Wǒ měi tiān chī yí gè píngguǒ.
I eat an apple every day.
How to write 苹果 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
苹 8 strokes
果 8 strokes
In Traditional characters:
蘋 20 strokes
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