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
• Eastern Min (BUC): béng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bing¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pîn / pīn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bing³ / ping⁵ / bêng³ / pêng⁵

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• 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/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: béng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛiŋ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: bing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pîn
    • Tâi-lô: pîn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piin
    • IPA (Taipei): /pin²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pin²³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīn
    • Tâi-lô: pīn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pin
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pin³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bing³ / ping⁵ / bêng³ / pêng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pìng / phîng / pèng / phêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ²¹³/, /pʰiŋ⁵⁵/, /peŋ²¹³/, /pʰeŋ⁵⁵/

Note:

• bing3/ping5 - Chaozhou, Shantou;
• bêng3/pêng5 - Jieyang.

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• 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

1. (historical) court lady
2. (historical) palace maid
3. (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

• 九嬪 / 九嫔
• 妃嬪 / 妃嫔 (fēipín)
• 嬪妃 / 嫔妃 (pínfēi)
• 嬪婦 / 嫔妇
• 嬪嬙 / 嫔嫱
• 嬪從 / 嫔从
• 嬪御 / 嫔御
• 宮嬪 / 宫嫔 (gōngpín)
• 貴嬪 / 贵嫔

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “嫔”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 177.

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

Wikisource

嬪 (eumhun 아내 빈 (anae bin))

1. 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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