宾

See also: 賓

Translingual

Han character

宾 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十人一金 (JOMC), composition ⿱宀兵)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 287, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 933, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5BBE

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 賓, replacing the bottom component with a phonetic component 兵 (bīng) to form a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) . Officially adopted as the simplified form of 賓 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme ((deprecated template usage) 《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 宾 – see 賓 (“visitor; guest; object; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 賓).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.