鈴

Translingual

Han character

鈴 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金人戈戈 (COII), four-corner 8813₇, composition ⿰釒令)

Derived characters

• 𫫿, 𤪊, 𮤧

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1299, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40267
• Dae Jaweon: page 1802, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4187, character 16
• Unihan data for U+9234

• Unihan data for U+F9B1

Chinese

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• 鈴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鈴
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *reːŋ) : semantic 金 + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs).

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ (“sound; noise; animal cry”); cognate with 鳴 (OC *mreŋ, “to make a sound”), 笙 (OC *sreŋ), Burmese မြည် (mrany, “to make a sound”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

Pronunciation

Definitions

鈴

1. bell; chime

   Synonyms: 鈴仔／铃仔 (Min Nan), 䤝仔／𲇳仔 (Min Nan), 䤝／𲇳 (Min Nan)

2. a surname: Ling

Compounds

Descendants

Etymology 2

Possibly borrowed from English rim.

Pronunciation

Definitions

鈴

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 軨／𫐉 (“wheel rim”) (Classifier: 條／条 c)
   • 2017 April 20, “【車主教室】車鈴越大制動越弱　雨天高危隨時水上飄”, in Apple Daily‎, archived from the original on 2021-06-21:

     現今車主為了自己部車美觀，條鈴有咁大得咁大，但各位車主知唔知輪圈大一吋對部車有咩影響呢？

     Car owners nowadays try to make their cars to have a better appearance and makes the car's wheel rim as large as possible. But do you car owners know what are the effects does a larger wheel rim have on the car?

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04287
• “鈴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #10283”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

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Suzu

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Kagura suzu

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Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. bell, chime

Readings

• Go-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りやう (ryau, historical)}
• Kan-on: れい (rei, Jōyō)
• Tō-on: りん (rin, Jōyō)
• Kun: すず (suzu, 鈴, Jōyō)

Etymology 1

From Old Japanese. First cited in the Kojiki of 712, and in the Man'yōshū of 759 with the phonetic spelling 須受 (suzu).

Possibly related to 涼しい (suzushii, “cool, refreshing”) and 涼む (suzumu, “cool off”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) すず (Heiban – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

鈴(すず) • (suzu) 

1. a bell, chime

   Synonym: ベル (beru)

   • 711–712, Kojiki, (poem 82):

     美夜比登能(みやひとの)阿由比能古(あゆひのこ)須受(すず)淤知爾岐登(おちにきと)美夜比登登余牟(みやひととよむ)佐斗毘登母由米(さとびともゆめ) [Man'yōgana]

     宮人(みやひと)の足(あ)結(ゆひ)の小(こ)鈴(すず)落(お)ちにきと宮人(みやひと)とよむ里人(さとびと)もゆめ [Modern spelling]

     miya-hito no ayui no kosuzu ochi-ni-ki to miya-hito toyomu sato-bito mo yume

     (please add an English translation of this example)

2. (historical) Synonym of 駅鈴 (ekirei): station bells issued to 駅使 (ekishi)
3. 鐸: a large wind chime, a hanging bell with a clapper

Derived terms

Proper noun

鈴(すず) • (Suzu) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

Etymology 2

From Middle Chinese 鈴 (MC leng).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) れ​ー (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

鈴(れい) • (rei) 

1. a bell, chime
2. (Buddhism) a singing bowl

Derived terms

Proper noun

鈴(れい) • (Rei) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 鈴／铃 (líng).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) り​ん (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

鈴(りん) • (rin) 

1. a bell, chime
2. an electric bell

   Synonym: 電鈴 (denrei)

3. (Buddhism) a singing bowl

Derived terms

Proper noun

鈴(りん) • (Rin) 

1. a female given name

References

Korean

Hanja

鈴 • (ryeong>yeong) (hangeul 령>영, revised ryeong>yeong, McCune–Reischauer ryŏng>yŏng, Yale lyeng>yeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鈴: Hán Nôm readings: linh, lệnh

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