藺

See also: 蔺

Translingual

Han character

藺 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿日弓土 (TANG), four-corner 4422₇, composition 艹閵)

1. rush used in making mats
2. used as a surname

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1067, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32399
• Dae Jaweon: page 1533, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3329, character 10
• Unihan data for U+85FA

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Chinese

trad.		藺
simp.		蔺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 藺
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
藺	*rins
閵	*rins
躪	*rins
轥	*rins

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìn (lin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁶

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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/

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• Middle Chinese: linH

Rime
Character	藺
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

  (Zhengzhang): /*rins/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	藺
Reading #	1/1
No.	8233
Phonetic component	閵
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	遴
Old Chinese	/*rins/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 藺

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Japanese

Kanji

藺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. rush, used for tatami covers

Readings

• On (unclassified): りん (rin)
• Kun: い (i)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
藺
い Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Noun

藺(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. a bulrush, a rush (plant)

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Korean

Hanja

藺 • (rin>in) (hangeul 린>인, revised rin>in, McCune–Reischauer rin>in, Yale lin>in)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 藺 (lận)

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