嬪

See also 嫔

Translingual

simpl.		嫔
trad.		嬪

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 賓 – a kind of woman, a court lady or maid. 賓 also means “obey, submit”, hence connotations of “an obedient woman, a maid”.

Han character

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

1. court lady
2. palace maid
3. (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'.

Descendants

• 嫔

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

嬪 (simplified 嫔, Yale pan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

嬪

Readings

• On: ひん (hin)
• Kun: ひめ (hime)

Compounds

• 別嬪 (べっぴん, beppin)

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Korean

Hanja

嬪 (hangeul 빈, revised bin, McCune-Reischauer pin)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

嬪 (simplified 嫔, pinyin pín (pin2), Wade-Giles p'in²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嬪 (tần)