Chinese Character Wiki
鄰

lín

neighbor

Phonosemantic compound. 粦 represents the sound and 阝 represents the meaning.

Components
粦 sound component

粦  Sound component

lín

  

will-o'-the wisp, phosphorus

阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

Evolution

鄰 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鄰 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

邻 (鄰) 

lín

neighbor; neighborhood; adjacent; close to

Most common words with 鄰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

邻居

neighbor

邻

neighbor

相邻

neighbor

邻近

neighboring

邻里

neighbor

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*(mə.)rə[n]

lin

lín

group of 5 families; neighbor


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 20.2947% of movies

1471st most common character in movies

1659th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

邻

Unicode

U+9130

Shuowen

“鄰，五家為鄰。从邑，粦聲。”


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