啉

啉 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口木木 (RDD), four-corner 6409, composition ⿰口林)

• 𪢇

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 195, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3806
• Dae Jaweon: page 416, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 637, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5549

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·ruːm): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 林 (OC *ɡ·rɯm).

Related to Thai ดื่ม (dʉ̀ʉm, “to drink”) (Schuessler, 2007).

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啉

1. ^‡ to pour a round of alcoholic drink
2. ^‡ to finish drinking
3. (Hakka, Southern Min) to drink

   你欲啉茶抑是咖啡？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad. and simp.]

   Lí beh lim tê ia̍h-sī ka-pi? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   Do you want to drink tea or coffee?

   • 2001, 黃一飛 (馬來西亞歌手) [Freddie Huang Yi Fei] (lyrics and music), “一百萬 [One Million Dollars]”:

     我要遊世界　義大利飲咖啡　路邊吃Spaghetti [Hokkien, trad.]
     我要游世界　义大利饮咖啡　路边吃Spaghetti [Hokkien, simp.]

     góa beh iû sè-kài, Ì-tá-lì lim ko-pi, lō͘-piⁿ chia̍h Spaghetti [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     I want to travel the world / drink coffee in Italy / eat spaghetti on the roadside

4. (Hokkien) to drink alcohol

   • 啉落去啉落去無醉啊我無醉 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     啉落去啉落去无醉啊我无醉 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: ~1986, 免失志, sung by 陳小雲 (Chen Hsiao-yun), lyrics by 王秀英, composed by 陳宏

     lim lo̍h-khì lim lo̍h-khì bô chùi ah góa bô chùi [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Keep drinking, keep on boozing; sober, oh, I'm not drunk

啉

1. ^‡ to be clamorous; to be noisy

啉

1. ^† stupid

   • 足下其實啉，休裝㖔。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     足下其实啉，休装㖔。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Wang Shifu, The Story of the Western Wing, 13^th – 14^th centuries CE

     Zúxià qíshí lìn, xiū zhuāng tǔn.

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

啉

1. Used in transcription, especially of chemical names.

• “Entry #7042”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: らん (ran)、りん (rin)
• Kan-on: らん (ran)、りん (rin)
• Kun: かまびすしい (kamabisushī)、むさぼる (musaboru)

啉 • (ram) (hangeul 람, revised ram, McCune–Reischauer ram)

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啉: Hán Việt readings: lam, lâm
啉: Nôm readings: lâm, lùm, lăm, lảm, lầm, lẩm, lằm, rầm, rắm, rởm, trăm

1. chữ Nôm form of rởm (“grotesque; ludicrous; ridiculous”).
2. chữ Nôm form of trăm (“hundred”).