蠙

蠙 U+8819, 蠙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8819 ← 蠘 [U+8818] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠚 → [U+881A]

Translingual

Han character

蠙 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 中戈十一金 (LIJMC), four-corner 5318₆, composition ⿰虫賓)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1101, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33741
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2901, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8819

Chinese

trad.		蠙
simp.		𧏖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (賓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蠙	*biːn, *bin
賓	*mpin
檳	*pin
鑌	*pin
濱	*pin
顮	*pin
儐	*pin, *pins
矉	*pin
擯	*pins
殯	*pins
鬢	*pins
繽	*pʰin
嬪	*bin
薲	*bin
獱	*bin
臏	*binʔ
髕	*binʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *biːn, *bin) : semantic 虫 (“worm”) + phonetic 賓 (OC *mpin)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bīn, pín (bin¹, pin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄣ, ㄆㄧㄣˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bin
    • Wade–Giles: pin¹
    • Yale: bīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bin
    • Palladius: бинь (binʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pin⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pín
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pín
    • Wade–Giles: pʻin²
    • Yale: pín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyn
    • Palladius: пинь (pinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰin³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bjin, ben

Rime
Character	蠙	蠙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Öffnen Sie	Öffnen Sie
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	符眞切	部田切
Baxter	bjin	ben
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪn/	/ben/
Pan Wuyun	/bin/	/ben/
Shao Rongfen	/bjen/	/bɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bin/	/bɛn/
Li Rong	/biĕn/	/ben/
Wang Li	/bĭĕn/	/bien/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ĕn/	/bʱien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pín	pián
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pan4	pin4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*biːn/, /*bin/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠙	蠙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	836	851
Phonetic component	賓	賓
Rime group	眞	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	蹁	頻
Old Chinese	/*biːn/	/*bin/

Definitions

蠙

1. Used in 蠙珠／𧏖珠 (“pearl”).
2. ^† a kind of oyster

Japanese

Kanji

蠙

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へん (hen); べん (ben); ひん (hin); びん (bin)
• Kun: どぶがい (dobugai)