lún

human relationship

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

侖 sound component

  Sound component

lún

  

arrange

Evolution

倫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
倫 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
倫 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
倫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
倫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lún

normal human relationships; human relationship; order; coherence

Most common words with 倫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

伦敦

London, capital of United Kingdom

order

伦理

ethics

周杰伦

Jay Chou (1979-), Taiwanese pop star

哥伦比亚

Colombia

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]u[n]

lwin

lún

relationship; order; category


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 29.4570% of movies

753rd most common character in movies

970th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+502B

Shuowen

“倫,輩也。从人,侖聲。一曰道也。”


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