臨屯

Chinese

		to face; to overlook; to arrive to face; to overlook; to arrive; to be (just) about to; just before	to store up; to station (soldiers); difficult to store up; to station (soldiers); difficult; stingy
trad. (臨屯)		臨	屯
simp. (临屯)		临	屯

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Líntún

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄣˊ

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Líntún
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Líntún
    • Wade–Giles: Lin²-tʻun²
    • Yale: Lín-twún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Lintwen
    • Palladius: Линьтунь (Linʹtunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin³⁵ tʰu̯ən³⁵/

---

• Middle Chinese: lim trwin

Rime
Character	臨	屯
Reading #	1/2	1/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	力尋切	陟綸切
Baxter	lim	trwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪm/	/ʈiuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/lim/	/ʈʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/ljem/	/ȶjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lim/	/ʈwin/
Li Rong	/liəm/	/ȶiuĕn/
Wang Li	/lĭĕm/	/ȶĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯əm/	/ȶi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lín	zhūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lam4	zeon1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*(p.)rum  [d]ˤun/

  (Zhengzhang): /*b·rɯm  duːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	臨	屯
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lín	tún
Middle Chinese	‹ lim ›	‹ dwon ›
Old Chinese	/*(p.)rum/	/*[d]ˁun/
English	look down at	accumulate
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	臨	屯
Reading #	1/2	1/2
No.	9801	12546
Phonetic component	品	屯
Rime group	侵	文
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	林	屯
Old Chinese	/*b·rɯm/	/*duːn/
Notes		甲金文象屮初生葉芽， 爲春初文，卜辭即有以今屯表今春者

Proper noun

臨屯

1. (historical) (～郡) Lintun Commandery (a commandery of the Han dynasty)