# 遴

| 遴 | U+9074, &#36980; 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 3930$_5$, composition ⿺辶粦)
* select, choose
* a surname

#### Derived characters

* 𫸈, 𧁽

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: 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

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | 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 (lin$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): leon$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lín
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lín
*** Wade–Giles: lin$^2$
*** Yale: lín
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lin
*** Palladius: линь (linʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /lin³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: leon$^4$
*** Yale: lèuhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: loen$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lên$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɵn²¹/

#### Definitions

遴
* (literary) to select; to choose carefully
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 遴定
* 遴柬
* 遴派 (línpài)
* 遴聘
* 遴選／遴选 (línxuǎn)

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lìn (lin$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lìn
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lìn
*** Wade–Giles: lin$^4$
*** Yale: lìn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
*** Palladius: линь (linʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /lin⁵¹/
* Middle Chinese: linH
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 |
| Baxter | linH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /liɪn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /lin$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ljen$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lin$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /liĕn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /lĭĕn$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /li̯ĕn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lìn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lan$^6$ |
* 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
* (obsolete) difficult (especially of travel)
* Alternative form of 吝 (lìn, “stingy”)

#### Compounds

* 遴嗇／遴啬 (lìnsè)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* align
* select
* hesitate

#### Readings

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

## 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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