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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 102 +12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 田火木手 (WFDQ), four-corner 69059)

References

  • KangXi: page 766, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21947
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1176, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2553, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7584

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rriːn, *rin
*renʔ
*riːn
*rin, *rins
*rin
*rin, *rins
*rin, *rinʔ
*rin, *rins
*rin, *rins
*rin, *rins
*rin
*rin
*rin
*rin
*rin, *rins
*rin, *reːŋ
*rin
*rin, *rins, *reːŋ
*rin
*rinʔ
*rinʔ, *rins
*rinʔ, *rins
*rins
*rins
*rins

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rin, *rins) : semantic  (field) + phonetic  (OC *rins).

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (43) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liɪn/ /liɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/lin/ /linH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ljen/ /ljenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lin/ /linH/
Li
Rong
/liĕn/ /liĕnH/
Wang
Li
/lĭĕn/ /lĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯ĕn/ /li̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lín lìn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8200 8224
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rin/ /*rins/

Definitions

  1. vegetable bed
  2. ridge between fields

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (“to roll the field using wheels of a carriage”).