pǐn
product
Triple of 口. Depicts several types of things together.
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)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
pǐn
article, product, commodity; article; commodity; product; goods; kind; grade; rank; character; disposition; nature; temperament; variety; to taste sth; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute)
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰr[ə]mʔ | phimX | pǐn | kind, class |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 67.9000% of movies
478th most common character in movies
308th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+54C1 |
Shuowen | “品,眾庶也。从三口。” |
Sources
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