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

  (Hailu, HRS): pin

  (Meixian, Guangdong): pin²

• Eastern Min (BUC): bìng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bing²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pîn / phîn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ping⁵ / pêng⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶bin

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• 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/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: pin
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰin⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: pin²
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰin¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: bing²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bíng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: bing²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ²⁴/
• 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 / pêng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phîng / phêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiŋ⁵⁵/, /pʰeŋ⁵⁵/

Note:

• ping5 - Chaozhou, Shantou;
• pêng5 - Jieyang.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶bin
    • MiniDict: bin^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³bin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bin²³/

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• 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

1. frequent; incessant
2. frequently; again and again
3. (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).