牝
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See also: 牡
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Han character
牝 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心 (HQP), four-corner 21510, composition ⿰牛匕)
Derived characters
- 𪊯, 𪀻(𬸋)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 697, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19925
- Dae Jaweon: page 1109, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1800, character 4
- Unihan data for U+725D
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 牝 | ||
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| Shang | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bilʔ, *binʔ) : semantic 牛 (“cattle”) + phonetic 匕 (OC *pilʔ).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pwi(y)-n (“female, mother, big, molar”) (STEDT, Schuessler (2007)). Cognate with Mizo pui (“full-grown female, mother (generally used of animals)”, suffix or particle), ha-pui (“molar”); Jingpho wi ~ yi (“female”); etc.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄣˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: pìn
- Wade–Giles: pʻin4
- Yale: pìn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pinn
- Palladius: пинь (pinʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰin⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: pan5 / fan5
- Yale: páhn / fáhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: pan5 / fan5
- Guangdong Romanization: pen5 / fen5
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰɐn¹³/, /fɐn¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: bjijX, bjinX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]irʔ/, /*[b]irʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*bilʔ/, /*binʔ/
Definitions
牝
- (of an animal) female
- 秉心塞淵、騋牝三千。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Bǐng xīn sèyuān, láipìn sānqiān. [Pinyin]
- 'Maintaining in his heart a profound devotion to his duties; his tall mares [/ female horses] amounted to three thousand.'.
秉心塞渊、𱅕牝三千。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (literary) female genitalia
- gorge; valley
- type of keyhole in ancient times
Synonyms
Compounds
References
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02488
- “牝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Kanji
牝
Readings
Hanja
牝 • (bin) (hangeul 빈, revised bin, McCune–Reischauer pin, Yale pin)
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Han character
牝: Hán Nôm readings: tẫn
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