彬
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urbane; well-bred; cultivated
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 彡 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 彬
- Common rank
- #3,230
- Unicode
- U+5F6C
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
well-mannered · Heisig RSH #2701
木 tree + 杉 fir tree
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 彬
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中山成彬 | NAKAYAMA Nariaki (1943–), right-wing Japanese politician and prominent denier of Japanese … | |
| 彬州市 | Binzhou, a county-level city in Xianyang City 咸陽市|咸阳市[Xian2 yang2 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 彬马那 | Pyinmana, town in central Myanmar | |
| 彬州 | see 彬州市[Bin1 zhou1 Shi4] | |
| 文质彬彬 | refined in manner; gentle | |
| 彬彬有礼 | refined and courteous; urbane | |
| 彬彬君子 | refined gentleman | |
| 彬蔚 | erudite and refined | |
| 彬彬 | refined, gentle, and elegant |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 林 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 林 sound part | forest, grove; surname | |
| 禁 | to restrict, to prohibit, to forbid; to endure | |
| 淋 | to drench, to drip, to soak; perfectly | |
| 琳 | a beautiful gemstone | |
| 啉 | stupid; slow | |
| 霖 | monsoon; a long spell of rain | |
| 婪 | to covet; covetous, avaricious | |
| 痲 | pock-marked; measles; leprosy | |
| 郴 | a county in Hunan province; surname |