bìn
encoffin
Phonosemantic compound. 歹 represents the meaning and 賓 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 殯
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
the undertaker's | ||
funeral and interment | ||
funeral | ||
a funeral | ||
to bury sb |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5377% of movies
2947th most common character in movies
3965th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6BAF |
Shuowen | “殯，死在棺，將遷葬柩，賓遇之。从歺，从賓，賓亦聲。夏后殯於阼階；殷人殯於兩楹之閒；周人殯於賓階。” |
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