璘

璘 U+7498, 璘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7498 ← 璗 [U+7497] CJK Unified Ideographs 璙 → [U+7499]

璘 U+F9EF, 璘 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9EF ← 燐 [U+F9EE] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 藺 → [U+F9F0]

Translingual

Han character

璘 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一土火木手 (MGFDQ), four-corner 1915₉, composition ⿰𤣩粦)

1. luster of jade

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 741, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21236
• Dae Jaweon: page 1151, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1138, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7498

• Unihan data for U+F9EF

Chinese

trad.		璘
simp. #		璘

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
潾	*rriːn, *rin
膦	*renʔ
憐	*riːn
燐	*rin, *rins
鄰	*rin
轔	*rin, *rins
嶙	*rin, *rinʔ
粼	*rin, *rins
磷	*rin, *rins
疄	*rin, *rins
麟	*rin
鱗	*rin
璘	*rin
翷	*rin
瞵	*rin, *rins
獜	*rin, *reːŋ
驎	*rin
鏻	*rin, *rins, *reːŋ
繗	*rin
僯	*rinʔ
橉	*rinʔ, *rins
撛	*rinʔ, *rins
遴	*rins
粦	*rins
甐	*rins

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lín (lin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lín
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lín
    • Wade–Giles: lin²
    • Yale: lín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lin
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leon⁴
    • Yale: lèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lên⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lin

Rime
Character	璘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力珍切
Baxter	lin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/lin/
Shao Rongfen	/ljen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lin/
Li Rong	/liĕn/
Wang Li	/lĭĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lín
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*rin/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	璘
Reading #	1/1
No.	8203
Phonetic component	粦
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	㷠
Old Chinese	/*rin/

Definitions

璘

1. (literary) luster of jade

Compounds

• 玢璘
• 璘彬 (línbīn)
• 璘斌 (línbīn)
• 璘斑
• 璘㻞 (línbīn)
• 璘璘
• 璘豳 (línbīn)
• 結璘 / 结璘

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02662

Japanese

Kanji

璘

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. luster of jade

Readings

• On (unclassified): りん (rin)

Korean

Hanja

璘 (eum 린 (rin), word-initial (South Korea) 인 (in))

1. emerald
2. luster of jade
3. gloss