Hanja Analyzer
廉

廉 — ryeom

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
청렴할 렴
Romanization
ryeom
English
upright, honorable, honest
Mandarin
lián
Japanese on'yomi
レン
Japanese kun'yomi
かど やすい
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#2,066 of 2,500
Strokes
13
Radical
广 (53, 10 residual)
Phonetic component
兼(겸)
Unicode
U+5EC9

Parts that make up 廉

  • 广 바윗집 엄 한쪽 벽에 기댄 지붕집과 건물
  • 兼 겸할 겸sound 벼 두 포기를 한 손에 쥔 모양아우름. ‘겸·렴’ 계열의 소리

How 廉 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 廉 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 广, 兼.

Korean example words with 廉

  • 염가廉價 Korean gloss: 매우 싼 값
  • 염관廉官 Korean gloss: 청렴한 관리
  • 염리廉吏 Korean gloss: 청렴한 관리
  • 최렴最廉 Korean gloss: 가장 싼 물건값
  • 염절廉節 Korean gloss: 청렴하고 강직한 절개
  • 염의廉義 Korean gloss: 염치와 의리를 아울러 이르는 말
  • 무렴無廉 Korean gloss: 염치가 없음을 느껴 마음이 부끄럽고 거북함
  • 염치廉恥 Korean gloss: 체면을 차릴 줄 알며 부끄러움을 아는 마음
  • 염방廉防 Korean gloss: 염치(廉恥)와 예방(禮防)을 아울러 이르는 말
  • 염개하다廉介 Korean gloss: 청렴하고 결백하다
  • 염결하다廉潔 Korean gloss: 청렴하고 결백하다
  • 염백하다廉白 Korean gloss: 청렴하고 결백하다

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 廉

  • 廉売れんばい bargain sale
  • 廉価れんか low price; moderate price
  • 清廉せいれん honest; upright; cleanhanded
  • 低廉ていれん cheap; inexpensive
  • 廉潔れんけつ honest; incorruptible; integrity
  • 廉かど grounds; charge; suspicion
  • 廉直れんちょく integrity; uprightness
  • 廉恥れんち sense of honour (honor)
  • 廉々かどかど each point; each part
  • 破廉恥はれんち shameless; infamous; disgraceful
  • 廉価版れんかばん cheap edition; low-priced edition; popular edition
  • 廉価品れんかひん low-priced goods

Characters sharing the phonetic 兼

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “겸” in Korean.

Other hanja read “렴”

Other hanja with radical 广

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