檳

See also: 梹 and 槟

檳	U+6AB3, 檳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AB3

← 檲
[U+6AB2]

CJK Unified Ideographs

檴 →
[U+6AB4]

Translingual

Han character

檳 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 木十一金 (DJMC), four-corner 4398₆, composition ⿰木賓)

References

KangXi: page 558, character 36

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15734

Dae Jaweon: page 948, character 8

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1310, character 9

Unihan data for U+6AB3

Chinese

trad.		檳
simp.		槟
alternative forms		㯽梹

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 *pin) : semantic 木 + phonetic 賓／宾 (OC *mpin).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bīn, bīng (bin¹, bing¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄣ, ㄅㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ban¹
Min Nan (POJ): pin / pun

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland for some senses; standard in Taiwan)⁺
  - 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, standard in Mainland for most senses; variant in Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bing
  - Wade–Giles: ping¹
  - Yale: bīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bing
  - Palladius: бин (bin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵⁵/

Note: bīn - standard in Mainland in 香檳／香槟 (xiāngbīn) and 檳子／槟子 (bīnzi).

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ban¹
  - Yale: bān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ban¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ben¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐn⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Zhangzhou, Taichung, Hsinchu, Yilan, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pin
  - Tâi-lô: pin
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pyn
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Lukang): /pin³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Zhangzhou, Yilan, Kinmen): /pin⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pun
  - Tâi-lô: pun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pwn
  - IPA (Zhangzhou, Tainan): /pun⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: /piɪn/

Rime
Character	檳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	必鄰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/pin/
Shao Rongfen	/pjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pin/
Li Rong	/piĕn/
Wang Li	/pĭĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ban¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*pin/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	檳
Reading #	1/1
No.	838
Phonetic component	賓
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	賔
Old Chinese	/*pin/

Definitions

檳

Only used in compounds.
(Malaysia, Singapore) Short for 檳城／槟城 (Bīnchéng, “Penang, Malaysia”).
檳市廳／槟市厅 ― Bīn shìtīng ― (please add an English translation of this example)

Compounds

檳城／槟城 (Bīnchéng)
檳子／槟子 (bīnzi)
檳椥／槟椥 (Bīnzhī)
檳榔／槟榔 (bīngláng)
檳榔嶼／槟榔屿 (Bīngláng Yǔ)

檳榔攤／槟榔摊
檳榔西施／槟榔西施 (bīngláng xīshī)
檳樹／槟树
雞檳／鸡槟

香檳／香槟 (xiāngbīn)
香檳酒／香槟酒 (xiāngbīnjiǔ)
香檳集市／香槟集市
馬檳榔／马槟榔

References

“檳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

檳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

betel nut; betel palm tree

Readings

On (unclassified): びん (bin), ひん (hin)

Kun: びんろうし (binroushi)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

檳: Hán Nôm readings: tân

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