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髌

bìn

Character Traditional 髕

What 髌 means

1. kneecapping
2. to cut or smash the kneecaps as corporal punishment

Words starting with 髌

• 髌骨bìn gǔkneecap; patella

Characters built on 宾

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

• 滨bīn(bound form) water's edge; bank; shore; (bound form) to border on (a lake, river etc)
• 缤bīnused in 缤纷
• 槟bīnused in 槟子
• 殡bìna funeral; to encoffin a corpse; to carry to burial
• 摈bìnto reject; to expel; to discard
• 嫔pínimperial concubine
• 鬓bìntemples; hair on the temples
• 膑bìnvariant of 髌

Sounds the same

Read bìn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鬓temples; hair on the temples
• 殡a funeral; to encoffin a corpse; to carry to burial
• 摈to reject; to expel; to discard
• 膑variant of 髌
• 髩old variant of 鬓