吝

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 177, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3327
• Dae Jaweon: page 394, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 594, character 4
• Unihan data for U+541D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		吝
alternative forms		恡 悋 㖁 𠫤 𠯛 恡 悋 㖁 𠫤 𠯛 𠯌 𠳈 𠳺 𠲲 𠳻 𠴽 𢙵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 吝
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (吝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
麐	*m·rin, *m·rins
吝	*m·rins
悋	*m·rins

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìn (lin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): līn / liām

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìn
    • Wade–Giles: lin⁴
    • Yale: lìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leon⁶
    • Yale: leuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līn
    • Tâi-lô: līn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lin
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /lin³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lin⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lin²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liām
    • Tâi-lô: liām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liam
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /liam²²/

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• Middle Chinese: linH

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
Baxter	linH
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lan6

• 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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 吝

1. stingy; miserly; parsimonious
2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

吝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. miserly
2. stingy
3. sparing

Readings

• Go-on: りん (rin)
• Kan-on: りん (rin)
• Kun: おしむ (oshimu, 吝しむ); しわい (shiwai, 吝い)

Compounds

• 吝嗇(りんしょく) (rinshoku)

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Korean

Hanja

吝 (eum 린 (rin))

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Vietnamese

Han character

吝: Hán Nôm readings: lận

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