bīn
entertain guests
Someone 亻 who hosts guests 宾; 宾 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Simplified script
ModernMost common words with 傧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
best man | ||
attendant of the bride or bridegroom at a wedding | ||
best man (in a marriage) | ||
bridesmaid |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5738th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+50A7 |
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