遴

遴	U+9074, 遴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9074

← 遳
[U+9073]

CJK Unified Ideographs

遵 →
[U+9075]

Translingual

Han character

遴 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜火木手 (YFDQ), four-corner 3930₅, composition ⿺辶粦)

select, choose
a surname

Derived characters

𫸈, 𧁽

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1264, character 25
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39117
Dae Jaweon: page 1760, character 24
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3884, character 20
Unihan data for U+9074

Chinese

trad.		遴
simp. ^#		遴

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 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lín (lin²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁴

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/

Definitions

遴

(literary) to select; to choose carefully
a surname

Compounds

遴定
遴柬
遴派 (línpài)
遴聘
遴選 / 遴选 (línxuǎn)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lìn (lin⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ

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/

Middle Chinese: linH

Rime
Character	遴
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	/liɪn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/lin^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ljen^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lin^H/
Li Rong	/liĕn^H/
Wang Li	/lĭĕn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯ĕn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lan⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*rins/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	遴
Reading #	1/1
No.	8215
Phonetic component	粦
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*rins/

Definitions

遴

(obsolete) difficult (especially of travel)
alternative form of 吝 (lìn, “stingy”)

Compounds

遴嗇 / 遴啬 (lìnsè)

Japanese

Kanji

遴

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: りん (rin)
Kan’yō-on: りん (rin)
Kun: なやむ (nayamu, 遴む)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

遴: Hán Nôm readings: lận

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