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彬

bīn

Character

What 彬 means

1. urbane; well-bred; cultivated

Example sentences

• 汤姆既彬彬有礼又善解人意。
  Tāngmǔ jì bīnbīnyǒulǐ yòu shànjiěrényì.
  Tom is polite and sensitive.

Words starting with 彬

• 彬彬有礼bīn bīn yǒu lǐrefined and courteous; urbane
• 彬彬bīn bīnrefined, gentle, and elegant
• 彬蔚bīn wèierudite and refined
• 彬州市Bīn zhōu ShìBinzhou, a county-level city in Xianyang City 咸阳市
• 彬马那Bīn mǎ nàPyinmana, town in central Myanmar
• 彬彬君子bīn bīn jūn zǐrefined gentleman
• 彬州Bīn zhōusee 彬州市

Words containing 彬

• 文质彬彬wén zhì bīn bīnrefined in manner; gentle
• 中山成彬Zhōng shān Chéng bīnNAKAYAMA Nariaki (1943–), right-wing Japanese politician and prominent denier of Japanese…

Characters built on 林

These share the phonetic component 林 (lín), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 禁jìnto prohibit; to forbid
• 淋línto sprinkle; to drip; to pour
• 琳língem
• 霖líncontinued rain
• 啉línused in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉

Characters that look like 彬

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 排páito arrange in order; to line up; to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel…
• 椒jiāopepper
• 梧wúSterculia platanifolia
• 蛎lìoyster
• 桓huánChinese soapberry (Sapindus mukurossi); big; pillar (old)
• 郴chēnused in 郴州

Sounds the same

Read bīn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 宾visitor; guest; object (in grammar)
• 滨(bound form) water's edge; bank; shore; (bound form) to border on (a lake, river etc)
• 濒to approach; to border on; near
• 槟used in 槟子
• 缤used in 缤纷
• 璸(pearl)
• 傧best man; to entertain
• 镔fine steel
• 玢(literary) a kind of jade
• 豳name of an ancient county in Shaanxi; variant of 彬
• 𧏖pearl-oyster
• 斌variant of 彬