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Translingual

Han character

(radical 131 +11, in Chinese 17 strokes, in Japanese 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸中人口口 (SLORR), four-corner 78766, composition𠂉)

References

  • KangXi: page 999, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30087
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1451, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2802, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+81E8

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*b·rɯm, *b·rɯms
*b·rɯm
*pʰrɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *b·rɯm, *b·rɯms) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *pʰrɯmʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (139) (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liɪm/ /liɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/lim/ /limH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ljem/ /ljemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lim/ /limH/
Li
Rong
/liəm/ /liəmH/
Wang
Li
/lĭĕm/ /lĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯əm/ /li̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lín lìn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lín
Middle
Chinese
‹ lim ›
Old
Chinese
/*(p.)rum/
English look down at

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9801 9803
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*b·rɯm/ /*b·rɯms/

Definitions

  1. to overlook; to look over
  2. to come down; to descend
  3. to arrive
  4. to face; to border; to be adjacent to
  5. to be faced with; to be confronted by
  6. to copy; to trace
  7. just before
  8. 19th hexagram of the I Ching

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. look at
  2. confront

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(rim>im) (hangeul 림>, revised rim>im, McCune-Reischauer rim>im, Yale lim>im)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lâm, lom)

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