Chinese Character Wiki

廩

lǐn

granary

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

building

稟 sound component

稟  Sound component

bǐng

  

report to

Evolution

廩 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
廩 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
廩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
廩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

廪 (廩) 

lǐn

granary; stockpile, store; government granary

Most common words with 廩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

廪

government granary

仓廪

(literary) granary

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p.rimʔ

limX

lǐn

granary

*p.rimʔ

limX

lǐn

fearful


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5447th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

廪

Unicode

U+5EE9

Shuowen

“，穀所振入，宗廟粢盛，倉黃而取之，故謂之。从入，回象屋形，中有戶牖。廩，或从广，从禾。”


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