賓

Honored guest, dignitary, or envoy.

• Noun: An honored guest or dignitary.
• Intransitive Verb: To reside or stay as a guest in another's house or domain.
• Transitive Verb: To receive someone with the honors and protocols due to a guest.
• Specialized Verb: To submit or yield.

Contrast with 客 (kè). While kè can refer to any visitor, stranger, or client, 賓 implies a person received according to a specific formal status or ritual protocol.

Tang-period reading: *bin. Variants include U+8CD4 and U+5BBE (simplified).

When encountering the sense of "submission," exercise caution: unless the context explicitly suggests surrender, treat this as an implication of the guest's social position rather than an active gesture of capitulation.