U+6EE8 "滨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6EE8 "滨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "bank," "shore," or "beach," and is commonly used in modern Mandarin as a component of place names and words related to waterfronts or coastal areas. Etymologically, it is a phono-semantic compound combining the water radical (氵) to suggest a connection with a body of water and the phonetic component 宾 (bīn), which contributes to its pronunciation. Beyond its literal sense, "滨" often appears in proper nouns, such as the city of Harbin (哈尔滨), and in terms like 海滨 (hǎibīn, meaning "seaside") or 湖滨 (húbīn, meaning "lakeside").