牝

See also 牡

Translingual

simpl. and trad.
牝

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 牛 (“cattle”) + phonetic 匕

Han character

牝 (radical 93 牛+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心 (HQP), four-corner 2151₀)

1. female of species
2. deep gorge

References

• KangXi: page 697, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19925
• Dae Jaweon: page 1109, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1800, character 4
• Unihan data for U+725D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

牝 (jyutping pan5, Yale pan5)

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Japanese

Kanji

牝

Readings

• On: ひん (hin)
• Kun: めす (mesu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

牝 (pinyin pìn (pin4), Wade-Giles p'in⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

牝 (tẫn)