pín

frown

Components
频 sound component

  Sound component

pín

  

frequently

卑 meaning component

  Meaning component

bēi

  

humble, inferior

despise

Evolution

颦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
颦 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
颦 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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pín

frown, knit brows; with knitted; to scowl; to knit the brows

Most common words with 颦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

一颦一笑

every frown and every smile

to scowl

东施效颦

lit. Dong Shi imitates Xi Shi's frown (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4851st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Traditional

Unicode

U+98A6


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