Chinese Character Wiki
頻

pín

frequently

Original meaning: 

riverside

Depicts a person standing (頁) on the shore wading (涉) in shallow water. Based on the original meaning "riverside", now written as 瀕. The meaning later shifted to "continuous" and "repeatedly".

Components
涉 iconic,remnant component

涉  Iconic Remnant component

shè

  

wade

頁 iconic component

頁  Iconic component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Depicts a head on top of a person.

Evolution

頻 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
頻 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
頻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

频 (頻) 

pín

frequently, again and again; frequency; frequently; repetitious

Most common words with 頻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

视频

video

频道

frequency

频率

frequency

频繁

often

频

frequency

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

蘋 顰

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]i[n]

bjin

pín

frequently

*[m-p]i[n]

bjin

pín

river bank


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.6860% of movies

1404th most common character in movies

1535th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

频

Unicode

U+983B


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