pìn
female of species
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]irʔ (dialect: *-r > *-j) | bjijX | pìn | female of animals |
*[b]irʔ | bjinX | pìn | female of animals |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5026th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+725D |
Shuowen | “牝,畜母也。从牛,匕聲。《易》曰:‘畜牝牛,吉。’” |
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