# 藺

| 藺 | U+85FA, &#34298; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85FA |
| ← 藹 [U+85F9] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 藻 → [U+85FB] |
| 藺 | U+F9F0, &#63984; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9F0 |
| ← 璘 [U+F9EF] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 隣 → [U+F9F1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

藺 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿日弓土 (TANG), four-corner 4422$_7$, composition ⿱艹閵)

#### Derived characters

* 𭌾, 𨙟, 𥽼, 躪, 轥

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1067, character 9
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32399
* Dae Jaweon: page 1533, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3329, character 10
* Unihan data for U+85FA
* Unihan data for U+F9F0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 藺 :
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Qin slip script | Small seal script |
| | Old Chinese |
| 藺 | *rins |
| 閵 | *rins |
| 躪 | *rins |
| 轥 | *rins |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lìn (lin$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): leon$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): līn
* 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/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: leon$^6$
*** Yale: leuhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: loen$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lên$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɵn²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līn
*** Tâi-lô: līn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lin
*** IPA (Xiamen): /lin²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lin⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /lin²²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /lin³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /lin³³/
* Middle Chinese: linH
Rime :
| Character | 藺 |
| 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$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /li̯ĕn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lìn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lan$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*rins/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 藺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8233 |
| Phonetic component | 閵 |
| Rime group | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 遴 |
| Old Chinese | /*rins/ |

### Definitions

藺
* (obsolete) common rush; soft rush
* a surname
    藺相如／蔺相如 ― Lìn Xiāngrú ― Lin Xiangru

#### Compounds

* 慕藺 / 慕蔺

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* rush, used for tatami covers

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): りん (rin)
* Kun: い (i)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 藺
* い Hyōgai
* kun'yomi

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) い [íꜜ] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [i]

### Noun

藺(い) • (i)
* a rush
    Synonym: 藺草 (igusa)

#### Derived terms

* 藺草(いぐさ) (igusa)
* 草藺(くさい) (kusai)
* 太藺(ふとい) (futoi)
* 細藺(ほそい) (hosoi)
* 蛍藺(ほたるい) (hotarui)
* 螺旋藺(らせんい) (rasen'i)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

藺 • (rin>in) (hangeul 린>인, revised rin>in, McCune–Reischauer rin>in, Yale lin>in)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

藺: Hán Nôm readings: lận
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