頻

See also: 频

頻	U+983B, 頻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-983B

← 頺
[U+983A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

頼 →
[U+983C]

頻	U+FA6A, 頻 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA6A

← 響
[U+FA69]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

恵 →
[U+FA6B]

頻	U+FACC, 頻 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 2128₆, 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

trad.		頻
simp.		频

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頻
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (頻) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	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 (pin²)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pan⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): phìn

(Meixian, Guangdong): pin²
Eastern Min (BUC): bìng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): pîn / phîn

(Teochew, Peng'im): ping⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶bin

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pín
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pín
  - Wade–Giles: pʻin²
  - Yale: pín
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyn
  - Palladius: пинь (pinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰin³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: pan⁴
  - Yale: pàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: pen⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɐn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phìn
  - Hakka Romanization System: pin^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: pin²
  - Sinological IPA: /pʰin¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: pin²
  - Sinological IPA: /pʰin¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: bìng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵³/
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: ping⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phîng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶bin
  - MiniDict: bin^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³bin
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bin²³/

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	pan⁴

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 ^[1]	頻 `頻` or 頻+`︀`^?
	頻󠄀 頻+`󠄀`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	頻󠄃 頻+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

頻

(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)^{←ひそむ (fisomu, 頻む, historical)}、みぎわ (migiwa)^{←みぎは (migifa, historical)}
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]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

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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[1] “頻”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

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