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Translingual
Han character
鄰 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火手弓中 (FQNL), four-corner 97227, composition ⿰粦阝)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1278, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39656
- Dae Jaweon: page 1777, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3797, character 11
- Unihan data for U+9130
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 潾
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*rriːn, *rin
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| 膦
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*renʔ
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| 憐
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*riːn
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| 燐
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*rin, *rins
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| 鄰
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*rin
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| 轔
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*rin, *rins
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| 嶙
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*rin, *rinʔ
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| 粼
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*rin, *rins
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| 磷
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*rin, *rins
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| 疄
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*rin, *rins
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| 麟
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*rin
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| 鱗
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*rin
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| 璘
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*rin
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| 翷
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*rin
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| 瞵
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*rin, *rins
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| 獜
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*rin, *reːŋ
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| 驎
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*rin
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| 鏻
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*rin, *rins, *reːŋ
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| 繗
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*rin
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| 僯
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*rinʔ
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| 橉
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*rinʔ, *rins
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| 撛
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*rinʔ, *rins
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| 遴
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*rins
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| 粦
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*rins
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| 甐
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*rins
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rin) : phonetic 粦 (OC *rins) + semantic 阝.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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鄰
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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lín
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ lin ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*(mə.)rə/
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| English
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group of 5 families; neighbor
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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鄰
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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8195
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Phonetic
component
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粦
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Rime
group
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眞
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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㷠
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Old
Chinese
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/*rin/
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Definitions
鄰
- neighbor; neighborhood
- to be neighboring; to be adjacent
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
鄰
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
- neighbor
- neighborhood
Readings
Korean
Hanja
鄰 (eumhun 이웃 린 (iut rin), South Korea 이웃 인 (iut in))
- Hanja form? of 린/인 (“neighbor”).
- Hanja form? of 린/인 (“neighborhood”).
Vietnamese
Han character
鄰: Hán Nôm readings: lân, láng, lăn, trăn, trằn
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