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

HSK 2

新经理叫李斌。

Xīn jīnglǐ jiào Lǐ Bīn.

The new manager is named Li Bin.

HSK 3

他的儿子叫张斌。

Tā de érzi jiào Zhāng Bīn.

His son's name is Zhang Bin.

HSK 7-9

他选了斌字做笔名，希望文武双全。

Tā xuǎn le Bīn zì zuò bǐmíng, xīwàng wénwǔ-shuāngquán.

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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