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倫

倫

倫 U+502B, 倫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-502B
← 倪
[U+502A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倬 →
[U+502C]
See also: 伦

Translingual

Han character

倫 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人人一月 (OOMB), four-corner 28227, composition ⿰亻侖)

  1. normal human relationships
  2. ethics

References

  • KangXi: page 109, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 793
  • Dae Jaweon: page 232, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 181, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+502B

Chinese

trad. 倫
simp. 伦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倫
Large seal script

L31442

L31443

L31444

L31445

L31446

L05384

L05385

L05386

L05387

L05388

L05389

L05390
Small seal script

s05751
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (侖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜦 *ruːls, *run
綸 *kruːn, *ɡ·run
論 *ruːn, *ruːns, *run
崘 *ruːn
掄 *ruːn, *run
菕 *ruːn
惀 *ruːnʔ, *run
睔 *ɡ·ruːnʔ, *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
碖 *ruːnʔ, *ruːns
溣 *ruːns
倫 *run
淪 *run
輪 *run
侖 *run
陯 *run
鯩 *run
棆 *run
踚 *run
耣 *runʔ
錀 *pqʰlun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *run) : semantic 人 + phonetic 侖 ‎(OC *run).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 倫
Mandarin Beijing /luən³⁵/
Harbin /luən²⁴/
Tianjin /luən⁴⁵/
Jinan /luẽ⁴²/
Qingdao /luə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /luən⁴²/
Xi'an /lyẽ²⁴/
Xining /lyə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /luŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /lũn⁵³/
Ürümqi /luŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /nən²¹³/
Chengdu /nən³¹/
Guiyang /len²¹/
Kunming /luə̃³¹/
Nanjing /lun²⁴/
Hefei /lən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /luəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /luŋ¹³/
Hohhot /lỹŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ləŋ²³/
Suzhou /lən¹³/
Hangzhou /len²¹³/
Wenzhou /laŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /lʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /lən¹³/
Xiangtan /nən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /lɨn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /lun¹¹/
Taoyuan /lin⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /løn²¹/
Nanning /lɐn²¹/
Hong Kong /løn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lun³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /luŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /lœyŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /luŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lun³¹/
Rime
Character 倫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力迍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lʷin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lwin/
Li
Rong		 /liuĕn/
Wang
Li		 /lĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lún
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lwin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]u[n]/
English relationship; order; category

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 倫
Reading # 1/1
No. 8661
Phonetic
component		 侖
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 淪
Old
Chinese		 /*run/

Definitions

倫

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

倫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. ethics

Readings

Proper noun

倫 ‎(hiragana りん, romaji Rin)

  1. A male given name

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

倫 • ‎(ryun) (hangeul 륜, revised ryun, McCune-Reischauer ryun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倫 (luân, luồn, lùn, lụm)

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