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廉

廉 U+5EC9, 廉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EC9
← 廈
[U+5EC8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 廊 →
[U+5ECA]

廉 U+F9A2, 廉
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9A2
← 說
[U+F9A1] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 念 →
[U+F9A3]

Translingual

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Han character

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廉 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿難金 (ITXC), four-corner 00237, composition ⿸广兼)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 349, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9436
  • Dae Jaweon: page 659, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 896, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5EC9

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 廉
alternative forms
亷
㢘
槏
𠪊
𤎉
亷
㢘
槏
𠪊
𤎉
𠪕
𢉧
𢋯
𠔳
 

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 廉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   
Characters in the same phonetic series (兼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
譧 *r'eːms
賺 *r'eːms
尲 *kreːm
鹻 *kreːmʔ
歉 *kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms
槏 *kʰreːmʔ
鰜 *ɡreːm, *keːm
稴 *ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm
豏 *ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms
甉 *ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm
廉 *ɡ·rem
鎌 *ɡ·rem
鬑 *ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
鐮 *ɡ·rem
簾 *ɡ·rem
薕 *ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
蠊 *ɡ·rem
嬚 *ɡ·remʔ
溓 *ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ
嵰 *kʰremʔ
隒 *ŋɡremʔ
熑 *ɡ·reːm
濂 *ɡ·reːm
燫 *ɡ·reːm
兼 *keːm, *keːms
縑 *keːm
鶼 *keːm
蒹 *keːm
搛 *keːm
謙 *kʰeːm
膁 *kʰeːmʔ
嗛 *kʰeːmʔ
慊 *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb
傔 *kʰeːms
馦 *qʰeːm
嫌 *ɡeːm
鼸 *ɡeːmʔ
尷 *kreːm

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·rem) : semantic 广 + phonetic 兼 (OC *keːm, *keːms).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • liam5 - Chaozhou;
  • niam5 - Shantou, Jieyang, Chaoyang, Puning, Huilai;
  • niang5 - Chenghai.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 廉
Mandarin Beijing /lian³⁵/
Harbin /lian²⁴/
Tianjin /lian⁴⁵/
Jinan /liã⁴²/
Qingdao /liã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /lian⁴²/
Xi'an /liã²⁴/
Xining /liã²⁴/
Yinchuan /lian⁵³/
Lanzhou /liɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /lian⁵¹/
Wuhan /niɛn²¹³/
Chengdu /nian³¹/
Guiyang /nian²¹/
Kunming /liɛ̃³¹/
Nanjing /lien²⁴/
Hefei /liĩ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /lie¹¹/
Pingyao /lie̞¹³/
Hohhot /lie³¹/
Wu Shanghai /li²³/
Suzhou /liɪ¹³/
Hangzhou /liẽ̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /li³¹/
Hui Shexian /le⁴⁴/
Tunxi /liɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /liẽ¹³/
Xiangtan /niẽ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /liɛn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /liam¹¹/
Taoyuan /liɑm¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /lim²¹/
Nanning /lim²¹/
Hong Kong /lim²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /liam³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /lieŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /liŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /niam⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /liam³¹/
Rime
Character 廉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力鹽切
Baxter ljem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/liɛm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/liam/
Li
Rong 		/liɛm/
Wang
Li 		/lĭɛm/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/li̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lim4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 廉 廉
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lián lián
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljem › ‹ ljem ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(k-)rem/ /*[r]em/
English frugal angle

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 廉
Reading # 1/1
No. 6042
Phonetic
component 		兼
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		廉
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡ·rem/

Definitions

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廉

  1. clean; incorruptible; honorable; honest
  2. inexpensive
  3. a surname

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of “inexpensive”): 貴／贵 (guì)

Compounds

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Japanese

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Shinjitai 廉
Kyūjitai
[1]
廉
&#xF9A2;
or
廉+&#xFE00;? 		 
廉󠄀
廉+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
廉󠄃
廉+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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廉

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 廉)

  1. clean, honest
  2. inexpensive

Readings

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Noun

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廉(かど) • (kado) 

  1. grounds (for suspicion), a charge (for a crime)

Proper noun

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廉(れん) • (Ren) 

  1. a male or female given name

References

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  1. ^ “廉”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

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Hanja

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廉 (eumhun 청렴할 렴 (cheongnyeomhal ryeom), word-initial (South Korea) 청렴할 염 (cheongnyeomhal yeom))

  1. hanja form? of 렴/염 (“upright, honorable, honest, pure”)
  2. hanja form? of 렴/염 (“to spy on”)

Compounds

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  1. 청렴(淸廉) (cheongnyeom, “honesty”)
  2. 염탐(廉探) (yeomtam, “snooping, nosing around”)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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廉: Hán Nôm readings: liêm, rèm

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