貧

See also: 贫

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 分 + semantic 貝

It look like an ideogrammic compounds, to divide 分 one's money 貝, but 分 is only phonetic.

Han character

貧 (radical 154 貝+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金尸竹金 (CSHC), four-corner 8080₆)

1. poor, impoverished, needy

References

• KangXi: page 1205, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36677
• Dae Jaweon: page 1667, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3628, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8CA7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

貧 (simplified 贫, Yale pan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

貧

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. poverty

Readings

• Goon: びん (bin)
• Kan’on: ひん (hin)
• Kun: まずしい (mazushii)

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Korean

Hanja

貧 (bin) (hangeul 빈, revised bin, McCune-Reischauer pin, Yale pin)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

貧 (simplified 贫, Pinyin pín (pin2), Wade-Giles p'in²)

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Adjective

貧 (traditional, Pinyin pín, simplified 贫)

1. poor
2. inadequate, insufficient
3. garrulous, talkative

References

• "貧" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-03-02.