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U+5B2A, 嬪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B2A

[U+5B29]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5B2B]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 38, +14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女十一金 (VJMC), four-corner 43486, composition )

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 272, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6819
  • Dae Jaweon: page 541, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1087, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+5B2A

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𡣕

Glyph origin[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *bin): semantic (woman) + phonetic (OC *mpin) – a kind of woman, a court lady or maid. 賓 also means “obey, submit”, hence connotations of “an obedient woman, a maid”.

Etymology[edit]

Endopassive form of (OC *mpin, “to receive like a guest”).

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (3)
Final () (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter bjin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/biɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/bin/
Shao
Rongfen
/bjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bin/
Li
Rong
/biĕn/
Wang
Li
/bĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
pín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pan4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 849
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bin/

Definitions[edit]

  1. (historical) court lady
  2. (historical) palace maid
  3. (archaic) a posthumous name for wives in Zhou ritual

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

Kanji[edit]

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings[edit]

  • On (unclassified): ひん (hin)
  • Kun: ひめ (hime)

Compounds[edit]

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC bjin). Recorded as Middle Korean 비ᇰ (ping) (Yale: ping) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 아내 (anae bin))

  1. Hanja form? of (court lady).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: tần

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