Wei Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Meat (ròu)
Bin; Kangxi strokes: 20
Page 997, Entry 03
Pronounced bin (rising tone).
Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): The end of the knee.
Zengyun (Expanded Rhymes): The kneecap.
Pan Yue, Western Expedition Rhapsody (Xizheng Fu): Dragging along lead and detaching the kneecap.
Commentary: The kneecap.
Also, Yupian (Jade Chapters): The kneecap bone.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Qin: The King and Meng Shuo lifted a tripod, severing the kneecap.
Commentary: The official commentary says: Bin is the kneecap bone.
Also, Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): One meaning is to cut off the feet as a punishment.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Autumn Official, Minister of Justice, Five Hundred Punishments Commentary: Yue means to cut off the feet. The Zhou dynasty changed bin to yue, meaning to kill.
Book of Rites (Liji), Hereditary Sons of King Wen: The punishments of castration, cutting off the kneecap, tattooing, cutting off the nose, and severing the feet, all use knives and saws to cut and pierce the human body.
Also, a personal name.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sun Wu: Sun Bin, a descendant of Sun Wu.
Also, Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced pin.
Also, pronounced bian (rising tone).
Same meaning.