遴

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遴 U+9074, 遴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9074
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Translingual

Han character

遴 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜火木手 (YFDQ), four-corner 39305, composition ⿺辶粦)

  1. select, choose
  2. a surname

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1264, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39117
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1760, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3884, character 20
  • Unihan data for U+9074

Chinese

trad. 遴
simp. # 遴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (粦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
潾 *rriːn, *rin
膦 *renʔ
憐 *riːn
燐 *rin, *rins
鄰 *rin
轔 *rin, *rins
嶙 *rin, *rinʔ
粼 *rin, *rins
磷 *rin, *rins
疄 *rin, *rins
麟 *rin
鱗 *rin
璘 *rin
翷 *rin
瞵 *rin, *rins
獜 *rin, *reːŋ
驎 *rin
鏻 *rin, *rins, *reːŋ
繗 *rin
僯 *rinʔ
橉 *rinʔ, *rins
撛 *rinʔ, *rins
遴 *rins
粦 *rins
甐 *rins

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

遴

  1. (literary) to select; to choose carefully
  2. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 遴
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 良刃切
Baxter linH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/linH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/linH/
Li
Rong 		/liĕnH/
Wang
Li 		/lĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/li̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lìn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lan6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 遴
Reading # 1/1
No. 8215
Phonetic
component 		粦
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		遴
Old
Chinese 		/*rins/

Definitions

遴

  1. (obsolete) difficult (especially of travel)
  2. Alternative form of 吝 (lìn, “stingy”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

遴

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. align
  2. select
  3. hesitate

Readings

  • Go-on: りん (rin)
  • Kan’yō-on: りん (rin)
  • Kun: なやむ (nayamu, 遴む)

Korean

Hanja

遴 • (rin>in) (hangeul 린>인, revised rin>in, McCune–Reischauer rin>in, Yale lin>in)

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Vietnamese

Han character

遴: Hán Nôm readings: lận

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