牝

See also: 牡

牝 U+725D, 牝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-725D ← 牜 [U+725C] CJK Unified Ideographs 牞 → [U+725E]

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

• 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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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		牝

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 牝
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (匕) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
匕	*pilʔ
庀	*pʰelʔ
疕	*pʰelʔ, *pilʔ, *pʰrilʔ
朼	*pilʔ
牝	*bilʔ, *binʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bilʔ, *binʔ): semantic 牛 (“cattle”) + phonetic 匕 (OC *pilʔ).

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pìn (pin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pan⁵, fan⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: pìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: p'in⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pinn
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pan⁵, fan⁵
    • Yale: páhn, fáhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pan⁵, fan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: pen⁵, fen⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɐn¹³/, /fɐn¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /biɪ^X/, /biɪn^X/▼

Rime
Character	牝	牝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	扶履切	毗忍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪX/	/biɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/biX/	/binX/
Shao Rongfen	/bjɪX/	/bjenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biX/	/binX/
Li Rong	/biX/	/biĕnX/
Wang Li	/biX/	/bĭĕnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱiX/	/bʱi̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì	bìn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[b]irʔ/, /*[b]irʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bilʔ/, /*binʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	牝	牝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pìn	pìn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjijX ›	‹ bjinX ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]irʔ/ (dialect: *-r > *-j)	/*[b]irʔ/
English	female of animals	female of animals
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	牝	牝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	489	490
Phonetic component	匕	匕
Rime group	脂	眞
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	牝	牝
Old Chinese	/*bilʔ/	/*binʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

牝

1. female animal
2. gorge
3. (ancient) keyhole

CompoundsEdit

• 父子同牝
• 牝戶／牝户
• 牝朝
• 牝牡

• 牝牡驪黃／牝牡骊黄
• 牝瘧／牝疟
• 牝雞司晨／牝鸡司晨 (pìnjīsīchén)
• 牝雞晨鳴／牝鸡晨鸣

• 牝雞無晨／牝鸡无晨
• 牝雞牡鳴／牝鸡牡鸣
• 虛牝／虚牝
• 騋牝

ReferencesEdit

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

牝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• Goon: びん (bin)
• Kan’on: ひん (hin)
• Kun: め (me); めす (mesu)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

• Hán Việt: tẫn

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