嬪 (Kangxi radical 38,女+14, 17 strokes,cangjie input女十一金 (VJMC),four-corner4348₆,composition⿰女賓)

• 嫔

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 272, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6819
• Dae Jaweon: page 541, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1087, character 19
• Unihan data for U+5B2A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*bin): semantic 女(“woman”) + phonetic 賓(OC*mpin) – a kind of woman, a court lady or maid. 賓 also means “obey, submit”, hence connotations of “an obedient woman, a maid”.

Endopassive form of賓 (OC*mpin, “to receive like a guest”).

嬪

1. (historical)courtlady
2. (historical)palacemaid
3. (archaic) a posthumous name forwives inZhou ritual

   • 生曰父、曰母、曰妻，死曰考、曰妣、曰嬪。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     生曰父、曰母、曰妻，死曰考、曰妣、曰嫔。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From: TheBook of Rites,c. 4^th – 2^nd centuryBCE, translated based onJames Legge's version

     Shēng yuē fù, yuē mǔ, yuē qī, sǐ yuē kǎo, yuē bǐ, yuēpín.[Pinyin]

     While they are alive, the names offather,mother, andwife are used; when they are dead, those of "the completed one", "the corresponding one", and "the honoured one".

• “嬪”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆[Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “嫔”, in莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page177.

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji,shinjitai form娦)

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• On (unclassified):ひん(hin)
• Kun:ひめ(hime)

• 別嬪(べっぴん)(beppin)

• “^▲嬪”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2026

FromMiddle Chinese嬪 (MC bjin). Recorded asMiddle Korean비ᇰ(ping) (Yale:ping) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

嬪

嬪 (eumhun아내빈(anae bin))

1. hanja form^? of빈(“courtlady”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[3]

嬪:Hán Nôm readings:tần

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