倫

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See also: 伦
倫 U+502B, 倫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-502B
← 倪
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倬 →
倫 U+F9D4, 倫
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9D4
← 陸
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 崙 →

Translingual

Han character

倫 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人人一月 (OOMB), four-corner 28227, composition ⿰亻侖)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 109, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 793
  • Dae Jaweon: page 232, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 181, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+502B

Chinese

trad. 倫
simp. 伦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倫
s05751
Transcribed ancient scripts
L31442
L31443
L31444
L31445
L31446
L05384
L05385
L05386
L05387
L05388
L05389
L05390
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (侖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜦 *ruːls, *run
綸 *kruːn, *ɡ·run
論 *ruːn, *ruːns, *run
崘 *ruːn
掄 *ruːn, *run
菕 *ruːn
惀 *ruːnʔ, *run
睔 *ɡ·ruːnʔ, *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
碖 *ruːnʔ, *ruːns
溣 *ruːns
倫 *run
淪 *run
輪 *run
侖 *run
陯 *run
鯩 *run
棆 *run
踚 *run
耣 *runʔ
錀 *pqʰlun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *run) : semantic 人 + phonetic 侖 (OC *run).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 倫
Mandarin Beijing /luən³⁵/
Harbin /luən²⁴/
Tianjin /luən⁴⁵/
Jinan /luẽ⁴²/
Qingdao /luə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /luən⁴²/
Xi'an /lyẽ²⁴/
Xining /lyə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /luŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /lũn⁵³/
Ürümqi /luŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /nən²¹³/
Chengdu /nən³¹/
Guiyang /len²¹/
Kunming /luə̃³¹/
Nanjing /lun²⁴/
Hefei /lən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /luəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /luŋ¹³/
Hohhot /lỹŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ləŋ²³/
Suzhou /lən¹³/
Hangzhou /len²¹³/
Wenzhou /laŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /lʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /lən¹³/
Xiangtan /nən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /lɨn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /lun¹¹/
Taoyuan /lin⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /løn²¹/
Nanning /lɐn²¹/
Hong Kong /løn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /lun³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /luŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /lœyŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /luŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /lun³¹/
Rime
Character 倫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力迍切
Baxter lwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lʷin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lwin/
Li
Rong 		/liuĕn/
Wang
Li 		/lĭuĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		leon4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lún
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lwin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*u/
English relationship; order; category

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 倫
Reading # 1/1
No. 8661
Phonetic
component 		侖
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		淪
Old
Chinese 		/*run/

Definitions

倫

  1. † the same type/kind/class; equal; match
    無與倫比／无与伦比  ―  wúyǔlúnbǐ  ―  beyond compare; unrivaled; unequalled; in a class of its own
    絕倫／绝伦  ―  juélún  ―  unsurpassed; unequalled; peerless; matchless
  2. normal human relationships; ethics
    倫理／伦理  ―  lúnlǐ  ―  ethics; morality; moral principles, normative ethics
    倫常／伦常  ―  lúncháng  ―  feudal order of importance or seniority in human relationships
    人倫／人伦  ―  rénlún  ―  human relations (according to feudal ethics)
  3. † reason; logic
  4. coherence; order; logical sequence
    語無倫次／语无伦次  ―  yǔwúlúncì  ―  to speak incoherently
  5. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

倫

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. ethics

Readings

  • Go-on: りん (rin, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: りん (rin, Jōyō)
  • Kun: たぐい (tagui, 倫)、ついで (tsuide, 倫で)、みち (michi, 倫)

Proper noun

倫(りん) • (Rin) 

  1. a male given name

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

倫 (eumhun 인륜 륜 (illyun ryun), word-initial (South Korea) 인륜 윤 (illyun yun))

  1. hanja form? of 륜/윤 (“morality, humanity, ethics”)
  2. hanja form? of 륜/윤 (“duty”)

Vietnamese

Han character

倫: Hán Nôm readings: luân, luồn, lùn, lụm

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