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鬓

bìn

Character Traditional 鬢

What 鬓 means

1. temples
2. hair on the temples

Words starting with 鬓

• 鬓角bìn jiǎosideburns; temples; hair on the temples
• 鬓毛bìn máohair on the temples
• 鬓发bìn fàhair on the temples
• 鬓脚bìn jiǎovariant of 鬓角

Words containing 鬓

• 云鬓yún bìna woman's beautiful, thick hair
• 两鬓斑白liǎng bìn bān bái(idiom) to have gray hair at the temples
• 耳鬓厮磨ěr bìn sī mólit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom)…

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
• 膑bìnvariant of 髌
• 傧bīnbest man; to entertain

Characters that look like 鬓

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

• 馨xīnfragrant
• 攀pānto climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status
• 蟹xiècrab
• 麓lùfoot of a hill
• 鳖biēsoftshell turtle
• 颦pínto scowl; to knit the brows

Sounds the same

Read bìn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 殡a funeral; to encoffin a corpse; to carry to burial
• 摈to reject; to expel; to discard
• 髌kneecapping; to cut or smash the kneecaps as corporal punishment
• 膑variant of 髌
• 髩old variant of 鬓