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嬪
嬪
See also: 嫔
Translingual
Han character
嬪 (radical 38 女+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女十一金 (VJMC), four-corner 43486, composition ⿰女賓)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 272, character 37
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6819
- Dae Jaweon: page 541, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1087, character 19
- Unihan data for U+5B2A
Chinese
| trad. | 嬪 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 嫔 | |
Glyph origin
| 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bin) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 賓 (OC *mpin) – a kind of woman, a court lady or maid. 賓 also means “obey, submit”, hence connotations of “an obedient woman, a maid”.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄣˊ
- Wade-Giles: p'in2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyn
- IPA (key): /pʰin³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ban3, pan4
- Yale: ban, pàhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: ban3, pan4
- IPA (key): /pɐn³³/, /pʰɐn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 嬪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 符眞切 |
| 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 |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 嬪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 849 |
| Phonetic component |
賓 |
| Rime group |
眞 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
頻 |
| Old Chinese |
/*bin/ |
Definitions
嬪
- court lady
- palace maid
- (archaic) a posthumous name for wives in Zhou ritual
- The Book of Rites, Qu Li II, 122:
- 生曰父、曰母、曰妻，死曰考、曰妣、曰嬪。
- While alive, the names of 'father', 'mother', and 'wife' are used; when they are dead, those of 'the completed one', 'the corresponding one', and 'the honored one'.
- The Book of Rites, Qu Li II, 122:
Japanese
Kanji
嬪
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Readings
Compounds
- 別嬪 (べっぴん, beppin)
Korean
Hanja
嬪 • (bin) (hangeul 빈, revised bin, McCune-Reischauer pin)
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Vietnamese
Han character
嬪 (tần)
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