bīn

entertain guests

Someone  who hosts guests  also provides the pronunciation

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

宾 meaning component

  Meaning component

bīn

  

guest

Evolution

傧 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
傧 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
傧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
傧 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
傧 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

bīn

entertain guests; best man; to entertain

Most common words with 傧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

best man

傧相

attendant of the bride or bridegroom at a wedding

男傧相

best man (in a marriage)

女傧相

bridesmaid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5738th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+50A7


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