# 頻

| 頻 | U+983B, &#38971; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-983B |
| ← 頺 [U+983A] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 頼 → [U+983C] |
| 頻 | U+FA6A, &#64106; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA6A |
| ← 響 [U+FA69] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 恵 → [U+FA6B] |
| 頻 | U+FACC, &#64204; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FACC |
| ← 頋 [U+FACB] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 鬒 → [U+FACD] |

## Translingual
### Han character

頻 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+8, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹一月金 (YHMBC), four-corner 2128$_6$, composition ⿰步頁)

#### Derived characters

* 𠐺, 嚬, 𡤉, 𫵍, 瀕, 𨽗, 㰋, 𦇖, 𫶡, 蘋, 𥷎, 𧔪, 𧭹, 𨏞, 顰

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1405, character 18
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43519
* Dae Jaweon: page 1922, character 23
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4373, character 8
* Unihan data for U+983B
* Unihan data for U+FA6A
* Unihan data for U+FACC

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 頻
* Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
* Transcribed ancient scripts
| | Old Chinese |
| 瀕 | *pin, *bin |
| 頻 | *bin |
| 顰 | *bin |
| 蘋 | *bin |
| 嚬 | *bin |
Originally 瀕, ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): a person 頁 near the water's edge 涉, extended to mean "on the verge". The water component 氵 was removed to distinguish its usage for "frequent".

### Etymology 1

Perhaps from a Proto-Sino-Tibetan *phi-r/n/s (“late, behind, after, outside”) (STEDT root #5883). See 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ, “to compare, match, follow”) for more cognates.

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pín (pin$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pan$^4$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): phìn
    (Hailu, HRS): pin
    (Meixian, Guangdong): pin$^2$
* Eastern Min (BUC): bìng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bing$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): pîn / phîn
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ping$^5$ / pêng$^5$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$bin
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: pín
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: pín
*** Wade–Giles: pʻin$^2$
*** Yale: pín
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyn
*** Palladius: пинь (pinʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰin³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pan$^4$
*** Yale: pàhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pan$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pen$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɐn²¹/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phìn
*** Hakka Romanization System: pin$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: pin$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /pʰin¹¹/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: pin
*** Sinological IPA: /pʰin⁵⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: pin$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /pʰin¹¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: bìng
*** Sinological IPA : /piŋ⁵³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: bing$^2$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bíng
*** Sinological IPA : /piŋ¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pîn
*** Tâi-lô: pîn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: piin
*** IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Taipei): /pin²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pin¹³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pin²³/
** (Hokkien: Jinjiang)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phîn
*** Tâi-lô: phîn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: phiin
*** IPA (Jinjiang): /pʰin²⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ping$^5$ / pêng$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phîng / phêng
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰiŋ⁵⁵/, /pʰeŋ⁵⁵/
* ping5 - Chaozhou, Shantou;
* pêng5 - Jieyang.
* Middle Chinese: bjin
Rime :
| Character | 頻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 符眞切 |
| Baxter | bjin |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /biɪn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bin/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bjen/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bin/ |
| Li Rong | /biĕn/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭĕn/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱi̯ĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | pín |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | pan$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]i[n]/, /*[m-p]i[n]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*bin/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 頻 | 頻 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | pín | pín |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bjin › | ‹ bjin › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b]i[n]/ | /*[m-p]i[n]/ |
| English | frequently | river bank |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 頻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9796 |
| Phonetic component | 頻 |
| Rime group | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 頻 |
| Old Chinese | /*bin/ |

#### Definitions

頻
* frequent; incessant
* frequently; again and again
* (physics) Short for 頻率／频率 (pínlǜ, “frequency”).

#### Compounds

* 低頻率 / 低频率
* 射頻 / 射频 (shèpín)
* 播出頻道 / 播出频道
* 步頻 / 步频
* 特高頻 / 特高频 (tè gāopín)
* 特高頻率 / 特高频率
* 白眼頻加 / 白眼频加
* 視頻 / 视频 (shìpín)
* 聲頻 / 声频 (shēngpín)
* 臘鼓頻催 / 腊鼓频催
* 複頻 / 复频
* 調頻 / 调频 (tiáopín)
* 調頻廣播 / 调频广播
* 變頻 / 变频 (biànpín)
* 超頻 / 超频 (chāopín)
* 超高頻 / 超高频
* 迦陵頻伽 / 迦陵频伽 (jiālíngpínjiā)
* 音頻 / 音频 (yīnpín)
* 頻仍 / 频仍 (pínréng)
* 頻來無忌 / 频来无忌
* 頻催 / 频催
* 頻傳 / 频传 (pínchuán)
* 頻婆 / 频婆 (pínpó)
* 頻尿 / 频尿 (pínniào)
* 頻年 / 频年
* 頻度 / 频度 (píndù)
* 頻數 / 频数
* 頻果 / 频果
* 頻次 / 频次
* 頻煩 / 频烦 (pínfán)
* 頻率 / 频率 (pínlǜ)
* 頻繁 / 频繁 (pínfán)
* 頻道 / 频道 (píndào)
* 頻頻 / 频频 (pínpín)
* 頻頻失利 / 频频失利
* 頻頻貶降 / 频频贬降
* 高頻 / 高频 (gāopín)

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 頻 – see 瀕 (“waterside; shore”). (This character is an obsolete form of 瀕).

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 頻 |
| Kyūjitai | 頻 &#xFA6A; or 頻+&#xFE00; |
| Kyūjitai | 頻󠄀 頻+&#xE0100; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 頻󠄃 頻+&#xE0103; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 頻)
* repeatedly, recur

#### Readings

* Go-on: びん (bin)
* Kan-on: ひん (hin, Jōyō)
* Kun: しきる (shikiru, 頻る)、しきりに (shikiri ni, 頻りに)、ならぶ (narabu, 頻ぶ)、ひそめる (hisomeru, 頻める)、みぎわ (migiwa)
* Nanori: かず (kazu)、しげ (shige)、つら (tsura)、はら (hara)、はや (haya)

### References

* ↑ “頻”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

## Korean
### Hanja

頻 • (bin) (hangeul 빈, revised bin, McCune–Reischauer pin, Yale pin)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

頻: Hán Nôm readings: tần, từng
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