# 顰

| 顰 | U+9870, &#39024; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9870 |
| ← 顯 [U+986F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 顱 → [U+9871] |

## Translingual
### Han character

顰 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+15, 24 strokes, cangjie input 卜金竹田十 (YCHWJ), four-corner 2140$_6$, composition ⿱頻卑)

#### Derived characters

* 𧅵

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1410, character 29
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43737
* Dae Jaweon: page 1929, character 23
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4396, character 8
* Unihan data for U+9870

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 顰
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 瀕 | *pin, *bin |
| 頻 | *bin |
| 顰 | *bin |
| 蘋 | *bin |
| 嚬 | *bin |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pín (pin$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pan$^4$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): phìn
    (Hailu, HRS): pin
* Eastern Min (BUC): bìng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bing$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): pîn
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ping$^5$ / pêng$^5$
* 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/
* 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)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pîn
*** Tâi-lô: pîn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: piin
*** IPA (Xiamen): /pin²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pin²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pin¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pin²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pin²³/
** (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 | 顰 |
| 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
    (Zhengzhang): /*bin/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 顰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9797 |
| Phonetic component | 頻 |
| Rime group | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 頻 |
| Old Chinese | /*bin/ |

### Definitions

顰
* (literary) to frown; to knit one's brows

#### Compounds

* 一顰一笑 / 一颦一笑 (yīpínyīxiào)
* 宜顰宜笑 / 宜颦宜笑
* 捧心顰 / 捧心颦
* 效顰 / 效颦 (xiàopín)
* 效顰學步 / 效颦学步
* 東家效顰 / 东家效颦
* 東施效顰 / 东施效颦 (dōngshīxiàopín)
* 西子顰 / 西子颦
* 西施顰眉 / 西施颦眉
* 蹙額顰眉 / 蹙额颦眉
* 醜女效顰 / 丑女效颦
* 顰伸 / 颦伸
* 顰兒 / 颦儿
* 顰眉 / 颦眉 (pínméi)
* 顰眉蹙額 / 颦眉蹙额
* 顰蛾眉 / 颦蛾眉
* 顰蹙 / 颦蹙 (píncù)

### References

* “顰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “颦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 177.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* scowl, raised eyebrows

#### Readings

* Go-on: びん (bin)
* Kan-on: ひん (hin)
* Kun: ひそめる (hisomeru, 顰める)、しかめる (shikameru, 顰める)

## Korean
### Hanja

顰 • (bin) (hangeul 빈, revised bin, McCune–Reischauer pin, Yale pin)
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