cleverness, agile, alert
敏 centers on quick mental and physical responsiveness: being clever, agile, and alert. It describes someone who picks up on things fast and reacts swiftly.
敏 combines 每 (which historically relates to abundance or repetition) with 攵 (a hand holding a stick, suggesting action). Together they convey quick, repeated action or mental agility.
The left side 每 suggests something happening repeatedly, and the right side 攵 is a hand taking action. Imagine a person whose hands move so fast they seem to be everywhere at once—that's the agile, alert cleverness of 敏.
For ビン, picture a clever inventor named Bin who is always alert and quickly fixes things with his agile hands: Bin -> ビン.
sensitive; alert; aware; susceptible
nervousness; oversensitivity
quick; nimble; agile; sharp; smart; clever
quick-witted and agile; keen and nimble
ability; capability; competence; skill
nimble; agile; quick
quick; prompt; alert; smart; clever; astute; shrewd; quick-witted
sharp (eyes, ears, etc.); keen; acute; sensitive
quickness; agility; activity
intelligence; discernment
slowness; inertness
photosensitivity
photosensitive epilepsy
photosensitive epilepsy; PSE
multiple chemical sensitivity; MCS
hypersensitivity
clever; of quick intellect
sensitive skin
dexterity (esp. as an attribute in RPGs)
agility; nimbleness