Hanja Analyzer
鄰

鄰 — rin

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
이웃 린
Romanization
rin
English
neighbor; neighborhood
Mandarin
lín
Japanese on'yomi
リン
Japanese kun'yomi
とな.る となり
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
14
Variant forms
厸 隣
Radical
邑 (163, 12 residual)
Phonetic component
粦(린)
Unicode
U+9130

Parts that make up 鄰

  • 粦 도깨비 불 린sound 불빛이 어른거리는 모양‘린’ 계열의 소리
  • ⻏ 고을 읍variant of 邑 사람이 모여 사는 터고을과 지명. 오른쪽에서 ⻏ 로 쓴다

How 鄰 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 鄰 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 粦, 邑.

Characters sharing the phonetic 粦

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 “린” in Korean.

Other hanja read “린”

Other hanja with radical 邑

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