牝 · pìn
female of species; deep gorge
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
female of species; deep gorge
- Mandarin
- pìn
- Cantonese
- pan5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 牝 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 빈
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+725D
- Radical
- 牛 · 93
- Strokes
- 6 · Unihan
- Residual
- 2
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
6 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 牝
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 匕 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 匕聲
Line 3547 · ⿰牜匕 · 匕聲 · source reference 0190050
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- bjijX · 扶履 反切 · #1264
- Middle Chinese
- bjinX · 毗忍 反切 · #1476
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 9287 · bjijX = 止開三上脂並 · bjinX = 臻開三上眞並
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- pìn
- kCantonese
- pan5
- kDefinition
- female of species; deep gorge
- kTotalStrokes
- 6
- kRSUnicode
- 93.2
- kTGH
- 2013:3601
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- pìn 31800.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- pìn 0878.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- pìn 285.060
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- pìn粵pan5
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 扶履 毗忍
- Kangxi positions
- 0697.020
- Guangyun positions
- 249.05 276.12
- GSR references
- 0566i
- Cangjie
- HQP
- Four-corner
- 2151.0