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吝
吝
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Translingual
Han character
吝 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜大口 (YKR), four-corner 00604, composition ⿱文口)
References
- KangXi: page 177, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3327
- Dae Jaweon: page 394, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 594, character 4
- Unihan data for U+541D
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
吝 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 吝
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (吝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 麐 | *m·rin, *m·rins |
| 吝 | *m·rins |
| 悋 | *m·rins |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
- Wade-Giles: lin4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
- IPA (key): /lin⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: leon6
- Yale: leuhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: loen6
- IPA (key): /lɵn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
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| Character | 吝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 良刃切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/liɪnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/linH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ljenH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/linH/ |
| Li Rong |
/liĕnH/ |
| Wang Li |
/lĭĕnH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/li̯ĕnH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
lìn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 吝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
lìn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ linH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mə.rə[n]-s/ |
| English | stingy |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 吝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8230 |
| Phonetic component |
吝 |
| Rime group |
眞 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
遴 |
| Old Chinese |
/*m·rins/ |
| Notes | 本文聲 |
Definitions
吝
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Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
吝
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Readings
Compounds
- 吝嗇 (rinshoku)
Korean
Hanja
吝 • (rin) (hangeul 린, revised rin, McCune-Reischauer rin, Yale lin)
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Vietnamese
Han character
吝 (lận)
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