U+541D, 吝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-541D

[U+541C]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+541E]

U+F9ED, 吝
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9ED

[U+F9EC]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+F9EE]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 30, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜大口 (YKR), four-corner 00604, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 177, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3327
  • Dae Jaweon: page 394, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 594, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+541D

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
         

Etymology edit

Compare Tibetan སྲི (sri, to be thrifty), Proto-Central-Chin *ren (to economize; frugal) (whence Mizo ren) (Geilich, 1994).

Pronunciation edit


Note: liêng6 - Chaozhou.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lìn
Middle
Chinese
‹ linH ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə.rə[n]-s/
English stingy

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 8230
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*m·rins/
Notes

Definitions edit

  1. stingy; miserly; parsimonious; niggardly
  2. (literary) to regret; to resent
  3. a surname

Synonyms edit

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. miserly
  2. stingy
  3. sparing

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(eum (rin))

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: lận

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Zhuang edit

Adjective edit

  1. Sawndip form of ningq (small; young (as a child))