牝

See also: 牡

牝	U+725D, 牝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-725D

← 牜
[U+725C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

牞 →
[U+725E]

Translingual

Han character

牝 (radical 93 牛+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心 (HQP), four-corner 2151₀, composition ⿰牛匕)

References

KangXi: page 697, character 2

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19925

Dae Jaweon: page 1109, character 1

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1800, character 4

Unihan data for U+725D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		牝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 牝
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (匕) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
匕	*pilʔ
庀	*pʰelʔ
疕	pʰelʔ, pilʔ, *pʰrilʔ
朼	*pilʔ
牝	bilʔ, binʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bilʔ, *binʔ) : semantic 牛 (“cattle”) + phonetic 匕 (OC *pilʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pìn (pin⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pan⁵, fan⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: pìn
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄣˋ
  - Wade–Giles: p'in⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pinn
  - IPA ^(key): /pʰin⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: pan⁵, fan⁵
  - Yale: páhn, fáhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pan⁵, fan⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: pen⁵, fen⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /pʰɐn¹³/, /fɐn¹³/

Middle Chinese: /biɪ^X/, /biɪn^X/▼

Rime
Character	牝	牝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	扶履切	毗忍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biɪ^X/	/biɪn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/bi^X/	/bin^X/
Shao Rongfen	/bjɪ^X/	/bjen^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bi^X/	/bin^X/
Li Rong	/bi^X/	/biĕn^X/
Wang Li	/bi^X/	/bĭĕn^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi^X/	/bʱi̯ĕn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bì	bìn

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]irʔ/, /*[b]irʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*bilʔ/, /*binʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	牝	牝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pìn	pìn
Middle Chinese	‹ bjij^X ›	‹ bjin^X ›
Old Chinese	/[b]irʔ/ (dialect: -r > *-j)	/*[b]irʔ/
English	female of animals	female of animals
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] 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	牝	牝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	489	490
Phonetic component	匕	匕
Rime group	脂	眞
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	牝	牝
Old Chinese	/*bilʔ/	/*binʔ/

Definitions

牝

Compounds

父子同牝
牝戶／牝户
牝朝
牝牡

牝牡驪黃／牝牡骊黄
牝瘧／牝疟
牝雞司晨／牝鸡司晨 (pìnjīsīchén)
牝雞晨鳴／牝鸡晨鸣

牝雞無晨／牝鸡无晨
牝雞牡鳴／牝鸡牡鸣
虛牝／虚牝
騋牝

References

Japanese

Kanji

牝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: びん (bin)
Kan’on: ひん (hin)
Kun: め (me); めす (mesu)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: tẫn

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