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賓: V.I.P., guest

JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

宀 and 貝 carry the meaning · 少 is drawn in

15 strokes
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ヒンhin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 国賓こくひんstate guest
  • 来賓らいひんguest; visitor; visitor's arrival
  • 賓客ひんきゃくguest of honour; guest of honor
  • 迎賓館げいひんかんreception hall (esp. for visiting state…
  • 貴賓きひんnoble visitor
  • 主賓しゅひんmain guest; guest of honor; guest of honour

Also read まろうど, したがう, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Treasure the moment! This radical represents the very origins of commerce and the primal concept of wealth.”
More in the 貝 shell story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
宀

Also built on roof (宀)

All 41
少

Also built on few (少)

貝

Also built on shell (貝)

All 38

賓 gives its sound to

The family reading is ヒン (hin). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ヒン

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
賓 V.I.P. · 宀 + 少 + 貝
vs頻 repeatedly · 歩 + 頁
賓 has 宀 + 少 + 貝 where 頻 has 歩 + 頁.
In ChineseSimplified 宾 · traditional, as in Japanese · bīn

Japan keeps the traditional form 賓; mainland China simplifies it to 宾.

Simplified
宾 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
賓 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin bīn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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