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)

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

Glyph originEdit

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

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, 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
    • 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 (Xiamen): /lin²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lin⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lin²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lin³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lin³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liām
    • Tâi-lô: liām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liam
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liam²²/
    • IPA (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

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CompoundsEdit

• 不吝
• 不吝指教
• 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)

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ReadingsEdit

• On (unclassified): りん (rin)
• Kun: おしむ (oshimu)

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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