Chinese Character Wiki

牝

pìn

female of species

Components
牛 meaning component

牛  Meaning component

niú

  

cow

cow

匕 sound component

匕  Sound component

bǐ

  

spoon

Evolution

牝 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
牝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
牝 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
牝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

牝  

pìn

female of species; deep gorge; (of a bird, animal or plant) female; keyhole; valley

Most common words with 牝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

牝

keyhole

牝鸡司晨

women meddle in politics

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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