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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 水卜竹金 (EYHC), four-corner 31186)

  1. approach, be on verge of
  2. near

References

  • KangXi: page 659, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18636
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1069, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1783, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7015

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pin, *bin
*bin
*bin
*bin
*bin

Pronunciation



Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bīn
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjin ›
Old
Chinese
/*pi[n]/
English river bank, shore

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9795 9798
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pin/ /*bin/
Notes

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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