pín

court lady

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

宾 sound component

  Sound component

bīn

  

guest

Evolution

嫔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嫔 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
嫔 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
嫔 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

pín

court lady; palace maid; imperial concubine

Most common words with 嫔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

imperial concubine

嫔妃

imperial concubine

妃嫔

imperial concubine

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3995th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+5AD4


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