吝

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Historical forms of the character 吝
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han characterEdit

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

1. stingy, miserly, parsimonious

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

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìn (lin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lin⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
    • IPA ^(key): /lin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: leon⁶
    • Yale: leuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /lɵn²²/

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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

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CompoundsEdit

• 吝嗇／吝啬 (lìnsè)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

吝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• On: りん (rin)
• Kun: おしむ (oshimu)

CompoundsEdit

• 吝嗇

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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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