鬓 (bìn): temples, hair on the temples
鬓 (bìn) is a Chinese character meaning “temples.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 髟 (semantic) and 宾 (phonetic). It ranks #3634 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 鬓 hair. Its radical form 髟 (hair) appears in many related characters such as 髦 (máo, bang (hair)), 髯 (rán, beard).
Definitions
- temples
- hair on the temples
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鬓角noun | bìn jiǎo | sideburns |
| 鬓发noun | bìn fà | hair on the temples |
| 两鬓斑白 | liǎng bìn bān bái | (idiom) to have gray hair at the temples |
| 鬓毛noun | bìn máo | hair on the temples |
| 鬓脚 | bìn jiǎo | variant of 鬢角|鬓角 |
| 云鬓noun | yún bìn | a woman's beautiful, thick hair |
| 耳鬓厮磨phrase | ěr bìn sī mó | lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) |
鬓 appears in 7 compound words: 57 as the first character, 14 as the last, and 29 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
他的头发早已白了大半,两鬓染霜。
tā de tóu fā zǎo yǐ bái le dà bàn , liǎng bìn rǎn shuāng .
Most of his hair had long since turned white, and his temples were streaked with gray.
二十余年荧幕生涯,昔日少年眉目未改,只是鬓角已生出白发。
èr shí yú nián yíng mù shēng yá , xī rì shǎo nián méi mù wèi gǎi , zhī shì bìn jiǎo yǐ shēng chū bái fā .
After more than twenty years in the film industry, the once-young actor’s features remain unchanged, though gray hairs have begun to appear at his temples.
在一次活动中,“教练群体大多两鬓斑白,当时40多岁的我居然是年轻人”。
zài yī cì huó dòng zhōng , jiào liàn qún tǐ dà duō liǎng bìn bān bái , dāng shí 4 0 duō suì de wǒ jū rán shì nián qīng rén .
At one event, “most of the coaches had gray hair at their temples, and I—who was in my 40s at the time—was actually considered one of the younger ones.”
Character Family
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