臨

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臨 U+81E8, 臨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81E8
← 臧
[U+81E7]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 臩 →
[U+81E9]
See also: 临

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

臨 (radical 131 臣+11, in Chinese 17 strokes, in Japanese 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸中人口口 (SLORR), four-corner 78766, composition ⿰臣⿱𠂉品)

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (品) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
臨 *b·rɯm, *b·rɯms
瀶 *b·rɯm
品 *pʰrɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *b·rɯm, *b·rɯms): semantic 臥 + phonetic 品 (OC *pʰrɯmʔ).

Etymology 1[edit]

trad. 臨
simp. 临

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Note:
  • lîm - literary;
  • liâm - vernacular (limited, e.g. 臨邊, 臨捷).
Rime
Character 臨
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力尋切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liɪm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lim/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lim/
Li
Rong		 /liəm/
Wang
Li		 /lĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lín
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 臨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lín
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lim ›
Old
Chinese		 /*(p.)rum/
English 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 臨
Reading # 1/2
No. 9801
Phonetic
component		 品
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 林
Old
Chinese		 /*b·rɯm/
Definitions[edit]

臨

  1. to overlook; to look over
  2. to come down; to descend
  3. to arrive
  4. to face; to border; to be adjacent to
  5. to be faced with; to be confronted by
  6. to copy; to trace
  7. just before
  8. 19th hexagram of the I Ching
  9. A surname​.
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms from 臨

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Rime
Character 臨
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 良鴆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /limH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /limH/
Li
Rong		 /liəmH/
Wang
Li		 /lĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lìn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 臨
Reading # 2/2
No. 9803
Phonetic
component		 品
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 臨
Old
Chinese		 /*b·rɯms/
Definitions[edit]

臨

  1. † to mourn for a deceased person

Etymology 2[edit]

trad. 臨
simp. 临
alt. forms 凜／凛
斂／敛

Pronunciation[edit]

Definitions[edit]

臨 (Hokkien)

  1. close (to an edge)
  2. to approach; to get close to; to be almost

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

臨

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. look at
  2. confront

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

臨 (lâm, lom)

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