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Translingual

Han character

(radical 163 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火手弓中 (FQNL), four-corner 97227)

  1. neighbor
  2. neighborhood

References

  • KangXi: page 1278, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39656
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1777, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3797, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9130

Chinese

trad.
simp.

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) : phonetic  (OC *rins) + semantic .

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /lin³⁵/
Harbin /lin²⁴/
Tianjin /lin⁴⁵/
Jinan /liẽ⁴²/
Qingdao /liə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /lin⁴²/
Xi'an /liẽ²⁴/
Xining /liə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /liŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /lĩn⁵³/
Ürümqi /liŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /nin²¹³/
Chengdu /nin³¹/
Guiyang /nin²¹/
Kunming /lĩ¹/
Nanjing /lin²⁴/
Hefei /lin⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /liəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /liŋ¹³/
Hohhot /lĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /liŋ²³/
Suzhou /lin¹³/
Hangzhou /lin²¹³/
Wenzhou /leŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /liʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /lin⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /lin¹³/
Xiangtan /nin¹²/
Gan Nanchang /lin⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /lin¹¹/
Taoyuan /lin¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /løn²¹/
Nanning /lɐn²¹/
Hong Kong /løn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lin³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /liŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /leiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /liŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lin³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/lin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ljen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lin/
Li
Rong
/liĕn/
Wang
Li
/lĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lín
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lín
Middle
Chinese
‹ lin ›
Old
Chinese
/*(mə.)rə[n]/
English group of 5 families; neighbor

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 # 1/1
No. 8195
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rin/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(rin>in) (hangeul 린>, revised rin>in, McCune-Reischauer rin>in, Yale lin>in)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lân, láng, lăn, trăn, trằn)

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