Hanja Analyzer
隣

隣 — rin

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
이웃 린
Romanization
rin
English
neighbor; neighboring; adjacent
Mandarin
lín
Japanese on'yomi
リン
Japanese kun'yomi
とな.る となり
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,083 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Variant forms
厸 鄰
Radical
阜 (170, 12 residual)
Phonetic component
粦(린)
Unicode
U+96A3

Parts that make up 隣

  • ⻖ 언덕 부variant of 阜 층진 언덕언덕과 높낮이. 왼쪽에서 ⻖ 로 쓴다
  • 粦 도깨비 불 린sound 불빛이 어른거리는 모양‘린’ 계열의 소리

How 隣 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 隣 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 阜, 粦.

Japanese words with 隣

  • 隣となり next (to); adjoining; adjacent
  • 近隣きんりん neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
  • 隣国りんごく neighbouring country; neighboring country; adjacent country
  • 隣接りんせつ adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
  • 隣人りんじん neighbour; neighbor; (people in the) neighbourhood
  • 隣家りんか neighbouring house; neighboring house
  • 善隣ぜんりん good neighbour; good neighbor
  • 隣室りんしつ next or adjoining room
  • 隣近所となりきんじょ neighbors; neighbours; neighborhood
  • 隣組となりぐみ tonarigumi; small-scale neighborhood associations established during WWII for fire fighting, policing, etc.
  • 隣席りんせき next seat; adjacent seat
  • 隣村りんそん neighboring village; neighbouring village

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 阜

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