頻

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See also: 频
頻 U+983B, 頻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-983B
← 頺
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 頼 →

頻 U+FA6A, 頻
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA6A
← 響
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 恵 →
頻 U+FACC, 頻
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FACC
← 頋
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 鬒 →

Translingual

Han character

頻 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+8, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹一月金 (YHMBC), four-corner 21286, composition ⿰步頁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1405, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43519
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1922, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4373, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+983B

Chinese

trad. 頻
simp. 频

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頻
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (頻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瀕 *pin, *bin
頻 *bin
顰 *bin
蘋 *bin
嚬 *bin

According to Shuowen, ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 頁 (“head”) + abbreviated 渉 (“ford”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 頻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 符眞切
Baxter bjin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/biɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/bjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/bin/
Li
Rong 		/biĕn/
Wang
Li 		/bĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/bʱi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		pín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		pan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 頻 頻
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		pín pín
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bjin › ‹ bjin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*i/ /*i/
English frequently river bank

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 頻
Reading # 1/1
No. 9796
Phonetic
component 		頻
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		頻
Old
Chinese 		/*bin/

Definitions

頻

  1. frequent; incessant
  2. frequently; again and again
  3. (physics) Short for 頻率／频率 (pínlǜ, “frequency”).

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 頻 – see 瀕 (“waterside; shore”).
(This character is an obsolete form of 瀕).

Japanese

Shinjitai 頻
Kyūjitai
頻
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or
頻+&#xFE00;?
頻󠄀
頻+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
頻󠄃
頻+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

頻

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 頻)

  1. repeatedly, recur

Readings

References

  1. ^ “頻”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

頻 • (bin) (hangeul 빈, revised bin, McCune–Reischauer pin, Yale pin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頻: Hán Nôm readings: tần, từng

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