Save Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage Chinese Scripts 炳文, 秉文, etc.(Chinese) Pronounced Pron. /piŋ.wən/ [key·simplify] Meaning & History From Chinese 炳 (bǐng) meaning "bright, luminous, glorious" or 秉 (bǐng) meaning "grasp, hold, preserve, persist" combined with 文 (wén) meaning "literature, culture, writing". Other character combinations can form this name as well.