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)

Derived characters

𪊯, 𪀻(𬸋)

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
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pìn
  - 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

(of an animal) female
Synonyms: 雌 (cí) (modern Mandarin)

Antonyms: 牡 (mǔ), male
(obsolete) female genital
type of keyhole in ancient times
gorge

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

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02488
“牝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

牝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: 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

牝 (tẫn)

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