lín
long spell of rain
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 林 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 霖
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
continued rain | ||
Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928 | ||
Chang-lin Tien (1935-2002), Chinese-American professor and chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley 1990-1997 |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3133rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+9716 |
Shuowen | “霖，雨三日已往。从雨，林聲。” |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
