吝

吝 U+541D, 吝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-541D ← 吜 [U+541C] CJK Unified Ideographs 吞 → [U+541E]

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

吝 (radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜大口 (YKR), four-corner 0060₄, composition ⿱文口)

ReferencesEdit

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

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		吝

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 吝
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

Characters in the same phonetic series (吝) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
麐	*m·rin, *m·rins
吝	*m·rins
悋	*m·rins

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìn (lin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): līn / liām

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: lìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
    • Wade–Giles: lin⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
    • IPA ^(key): /lin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: leon⁶
    • Yale: leuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lên⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /lɵn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līn
    • Tâi-lô: līn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lin
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /lin³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lin⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lin²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liām
    • Tâi-lô: liām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liam
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /liam²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /liɪn^H/▼

Rime
Character	吝
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
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mə.rə[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*m·rins/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	吝
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	吝
Reading #	1/1
No.	8230
Phonetic component	吝
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	遴
Old Chinese	/*m·rins/
Notes	本文聲

DefinitionsEdit

吝

1. stingy; miserly; parsimonious
2. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

• 不吝 (bùlìn)
• 不吝指教 (bùlìn zhǐjiào)
• 不吝珠玉
• 不吝賜教／不吝赐教
• 不吝金玉
• 吉凶悔吝

• 吝嗇／吝啬 (lìnsè)
• 吝嗇鬼／吝啬鬼 (lìnsèguǐ)
• 吝情
• 吝惜 (lìnxī)
• 吝色
• 慳吝／悭吝

• 慳吝苦剋／悭吝苦克
• 改過不吝／改过不吝
• 玼吝
• 粉吝紅慳／粉吝红悭
• 繁言吝嗇／繁言吝啬
• 鄙吝

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

吝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. miserly
2. stingy
3. sparing

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: りん (rin)
• Kan’on: りん (rin)
• Kun: おしむ (oshimu, 吝しむ); しわい (shiwai, 吝い)

CompoundsEdit

• 吝嗇 (りんしょく) (rinshoku)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

吝 • (rin) (hangeul 린, revised rin, McCune–Reischauer rin, Yale lin)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

吝 (lận)

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