賓

See also: 宾

Translingual

Han character

賓 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+7 in Chinese, 貝+8 in Japanese, 14 strokes in Chinese, 15 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 十一竹金 (JMHC), four-corner 3080₆, composition ⿱⿳宀一𣥂貝)

Derived characters

• 嬪 檳

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1208, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36788
• Dae Jaweon: page 1676, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3643, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8CD3

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Chinese

trad.		賓
simp.		宾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 賓
Shang
Oracle bone script

Characters in the same phonetic series (賓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蠙	*biːn, *bin
賓	*mpin
檳	*pin
鑌	*pin
濱	*pin
顮	*pin
儐	*pin, *pins
矉	*pin
擯	*pins
殯	*pins
鬢	*pins
繽	*pʰin
嬪	*bin
薲	*bin
獱	*bin
臏	*binʔ
髕	*binʔ

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mpin) : phonetic 𡧍 () + semantic 貝.

Etymology

From n-nominalization of Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pi (“to give”). Cognate with 嬪 (OC *bin, “to become a bride”), which is an endopassive of 賓 (OC *mpin, “lit, "to be received like a guest"”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bīn (bin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ban¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pin
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹pin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bin
    • Wade–Giles: pin¹
    • Yale: bīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bin
    • Palladius: бинь (binʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ban¹
    • Yale: bān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ban¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ben¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pin
    • Tâi-lô: pin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pyn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pin³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pin⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹pin
    • MiniDict: pin^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹pin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pin⁵³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pi[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mpin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	賓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bīn
Middle Chinese	‹ pjin ›
Old Chinese	/*pi[n]/
English	guest
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	賓
Reading #	1/1
No.	837
Phonetic component	賓
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	賔
Old Chinese	/*mpin/
Notes	金文不從丏聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 賓

1. visitor; guest
2. (grammar) object

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Japanese

Kanji

賓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. Guest, V.I.P.

Readings

• Go-on: ひん (hin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ひん (hin, Jōyō)
• Kun: まろうど (marōdo, 賓); したがう (shitagau, 賓う)

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Korean

Hanja

賓 (eum 빈 (bin))

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Vietnamese

Han character

賓: Hán Nôm readings: tân

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