嬪

嬪 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女十一金 (VJMC), four-corner 4348₆, 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) court lady
2. (historical) palace maid
3. (archaic) a posthumous name for wives in Zhou 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: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shēng yuē fù, yuē mǔ, yuē qī, sǐ yuē kǎo, yuē bǐ, yuē pín.

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

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “嫔”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 177.

(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)

From Middle Chinese 嬪 (MC bjin). Recorded as Middle Korean 비ᇰ (ping) (Yale: ping) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

嬪

Wikisource

嬪 (eumhun 아내 빈 (anae bin))

1. hanja form^? of 빈 (“court lady”)

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

嬪: Hán Nôm readings: tần

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