臨

See also: 临

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 臥 + phonetic 品

Han character

臨 (radical 131 臣+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸中人口口 (SLORR), four-corner 7876₆, composition ⿰臣⿱𠂉品)

1. draw near, approach
2. descend
3. 19th hexagram of the I Ching

References

• KangXi: page 999, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30087
• Dae Jaweon: page 1451, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2802, character 19
• Unihan data for U+81E8

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Chinese

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trad.		臨
simp.		临

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lín, lìn (lin², lin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ, ㄌㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lam⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): lîm / lím

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lín
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lin²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lin
    • IPA ^(key): /lin³⁵/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lin⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
    • IPA ^(key): /lin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lam⁴
    • Yale: làhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lam⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lɐm²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lîm / lím
    • Tâi-lô: lîm / lím
    • IPA (Taipei): /lim²³/, /lim⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lim¹³/, /lim⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (臨, reconstructed)
Character (臨), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 力尋切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liɪm/	/li̯əm/	/liəm/	/lim/	/lim/	/lĭĕm/	/ljem/
Character (臨), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 良鴆切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liɪmH/	/li̯əmH/	/liəmH/	/limH/	/limH/	/lĭĕmH/	/ljemH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (臨, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
臨								lín								‹ lim ›								/*(p.)rum/								look down at
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
臨					9801					品					侵					1					林					/*b·rɯm/
臨					9803					品					侵					1					臨					/*b·rɯms/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

臨

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: りん (rin)
• Kun: のぞむ (nozomu)

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Korean

Hanja

臨 (rim, im) (hangeul 림, 임, revised rim, im, McCune-Reischauer rim, im, Yale lim, im)

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Vietnamese

Han character

臨 (lâm, lom)

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