斌

bīn

proper noun

Meanings

1 refined and forceful; cultured yet vigorous (variant of 彬)
2 common given-name character

Characters

斌

bīn

refined and forceful (variant of 彬)

Examples

他的儿子叫张斌。

Tā de érzi jiào Zhāng Bīn.

His son's name is Zhang Bin.

新经理叫李斌。

Xīn jīnglǐ jiào Lǐ Bīn.

The new manager is named Li Bin.

他选了斌字做笔名，希望文武双全。

Tā xuǎn le Bīn zì zuò bǐmíng, xīwàng wénwǔshuāngquán.

He chose 'Bin' for his pen name, hoping to be both cultured and bold.

Tips

usage

In modern Chinese 斌 appears almost exclusively as a given-name character — extremely popular for boys born 1960s-2000s. It is a graphic variant of 彬 ('refined / cultured'), and parents pick 斌 because its components literally stack 文 (civil / literary) and 武 (martial), wishing the child to be 文武双全 — accomplished in both arts and arms.

memory

Read the character top-down, left-right: 文 (writing brush) + 武 (warrior) = the well-rounded scholar-warrior ideal. A near-perfect ideographic name.

Components

semantic

文 wén

writing; culture; civil

Left side 文 contributes the 'civil / literary / refined' half of the meaning. Pairs with the martial 武 on the right to form a compound ideograph: civil + martial = well-rounded.

semantic

武 wǔ

martial; military

Right side 武 supplies the 'martial / forceful' half. Together with 文 on the left the graph expresses the Confucian ideal of 文武双全 — equally accomplished in scholarship and combat. Indexed under Kangxi #67 文 by tradition.

Stroke Order

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