賓

visitor / guest / object (in grammar)

"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom

young

cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

esteemed guest / honored guest / guest (on a show)

guest / visitor

Laibin prefecture-level city in Guangxi

state visitor / visiting head of state

lit. the voice of the guest overwhelms that of the host (idiom) / fig. a minor player upstages the main attraction / minor details obscure the main point / the sauce is better than the fish

carbine rifle (loanword)

foreign guest / international visitor

Ribena

state guesthouse

Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1]

to bring tribute as sign of submission (idiom); to submit

Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer

subject-verb-object SVO or subject-predicate-object sentence pattern (e.g. in Chinese grammar)

guest of honor / host and guests

subject-object-verb SOV or subject-object-predicate sentence pattern (e.g. in Japanese or Korean grammar)

colorful

variant of 嘉賓|嘉宾[jia1 bin1]

Laibin prefecture-level city in Guangxi

guest from the same country / internal or domestic visitor (as opposed to international guest 外賓|外宾)

verb-object construction