廉

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

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

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

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 廉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
廉-seal.svg 廉-bigseal.svg
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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • 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 (Min Nan) /liam³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /lieŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /liŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /niam⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /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
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
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[edit]

廉

  1. clean; incorruptable; honorable; honest
  2. inexpensive
  3. A surname​.

Synonyms[edit]

Antonyms[edit]

  • (inexpensive): 貴／贵 (guì)

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

廉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Noun[edit]

廉 (hiragana かど, rōmaji kado)

  1. grounds, suspicion

Proper noun[edit]

廉 (hiragana れん, rōmaji Ren)

  1. A male or female given name

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

廉 • (ryeom) (hangeul 렴, revised ryeom, McCune-Reischauer ryŏm, Yale lyem)

  1. honest, pure
  2. to spy on

Compounds[edit]

  1. 淸廉 (청렴)
  2. 廉探 (염탐)

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

廉 (liêm, rèm)

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