廉

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

Translingual

Han character

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

1. clean, upright, honorable, honest
2. inexpensive

Synonyms

• (clean): 清, 潔

Antonyms

• (inexpensive): 貴

Derived characters

• 濂, 嬚, 燫, 臁, 鐮 (镰), 蠊, 譧, 劆, 薕, 簾

See also

• 亷

References

• 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

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Chinese

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lián (lian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lim⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): liàm
• Min Nan (POJ): liâm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lián
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lien²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lian
    • IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lim⁴
    • Yale: lìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lim⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /liːm²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liàm
    • Hakka Romanization System: liamˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: liam²
    • IPA: /li̯am¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liâm
    • Tâi-lô: liâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liaam
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liam²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liam²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liam¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liam²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liam²³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 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/

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• Middle Chinese: /liᴇm/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*(k-)rem/, /*[r]em/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·rem/

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

廉

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Japanese

Kanji

廉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: れん (ren, Jōyō)^{←れん (ren, historical)←れむ (remu, ancient)}
• Kan’on: れん (ren, Jōyō)^{←れん (ren, historical)←れむ (remu, ancient)}
• Kun: きよい (kiyoi, 廉い); やすい (yasui, 廉い)

Noun

廉 (hiragana かど, rōmaji kado)

1. grounds, suspicion

Proper noun

廉 (hiragana れん, rōmaji Ren)

1. A male or female given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. honest, pure
2. to spy on

Compounds

1. 淸廉 (청렴)
2. 廉探 (염탐)

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Vietnamese

Han character

廉 (liêm, rèm)

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