遴

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)

1. select, choose
2. a surname

References

• KangXi: 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

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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

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• 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)⁺
    • Jyutping: leon⁴
    • Yale: lèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lên⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn²¹/

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Definitions

遴

1. (literary) to select; to choose carefully
2. 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

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• 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/

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• Middle Chinese: /liɪn^H/

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/linH/
Shao Rongfen	/ljenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/linH/
Li Rong	/liĕnH/
Wang Li	/lĭĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯ĕnH/
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	遴
Old Chinese	/*rins/

Definitions

遴

1. (obsolete) difficult (especially of travel)
2. Alternative form of 吝 (lìn, “stingy”).

Compounds

遴嗇／遴啬

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Japanese

Kanji

遴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. align
2. select
3. hesitate

Readings

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

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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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