儐
bīn

entertain guests

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpin
pins

說文解字

導也。从人賓聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

傧 bīn, bìn entertain guests Simplified

Someone 亻 who hosts guests 宾; 宾 also provides the pronunciation

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person
宾
宾 Meaning component
bīn guest

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode