彬 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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bīn

cultivated

Phonosemantic compound. 彡 represents the meaning and 林 represents the sound.

Components

彡 Meaning component

shān

hair

林 Sound component

lín

forest

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

bīn

cultivated, well-bred; ornamental; refined

Most common words with 彬

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	彬	refined
	彬彬有礼	urbane
	文质彬彬	gentle
	中山成彬	NAKAYAMA Nariaki (1943-), right-wing Japanese cabinet minister and prominent denier of Japanese war crimes
	彬县	Bin County in Xianyang 咸陽\|咸阳[Xiányáng], Shaanxi

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.7528% of movies

3134th most common character in movies

2736th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	11
Unicode	U+5F6C
Shuowen	“份，文質僣也。从人，分聲。《論語》曰：‘文質份份。’彬，古文份从彡、林。林者，从焚省聲。”

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