嬪

See also: 娦 and 嫔

嬪	U+5B2A, 嬪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B2A

← 嬩
[U+5B29]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嬫 →
[U+5B2B]

Translingual

Han character

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

Descendants

嫔

References

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

trad.		嬪
simp.		嫔
alternative forms		𡣕

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／形声, 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”.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pín (pin²)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ban³ / pan⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pín
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pín
  - Wade–Giles: pʻin²
  - Yale: pín
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyn
  - Palladius: пинь (pinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰin³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ban³ / pan⁴
  - Yale: ban / pàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ban³ / pan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ben³ / pen⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐn³³/, /pʰɐn²¹/

Middle Chinese: bjin

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
Baxter	bjin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/bin/
Shao Rongfen	/bjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bin/
Li Rong	/biĕn/
Wang Li	/bĭĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pín
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pan⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*bin/

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

(historical) court lady
(historical) palace maid
(archaic) a posthumous name for wives in Zhou ritual
- 生曰父、曰母、曰妻，死曰考、曰妣、曰嬪。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  生曰父、曰母、曰妻，死曰考、曰妣、曰嫔。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Shēng yuē fù, yuē mǔ, yuē qī, sǐ yuē kǎo, yuē bǐ, yuē pín. [Pinyin]
  While they are alive, the names of father, mother, and wife are used; when they are dead, those of "the completed one", "the corresponding one", and "the honoured one".

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	娦
Kyūjitai	嬪

Kanji

嬪

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 娦)

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Readings

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

Compounds

別嬪(べっぴん) (beppin)

Korean

Etymology

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

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

嬪

Wikisource

嬪 (eumhun 아내 빈 (anae bin))

hanja form^? of 빈 (“court lady”)

Compounds

궁빈 (宮嬪, gungbin)
비빈 (妃嬪, bibin)

References

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

Han character

嬪: Hán Nôm readings: tần

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