# 鄰

| 鄰 | U+9130, &#37168; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9130 |
| ← 鄯 [U+912F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鄱 → [U+9131] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 鄰 |
| Shinjitai | 隣 |
| Simplified | 邻 |

### Han character

鄰 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火手弓中 (FQNL), four-corner 9722$_7$, composition ⿰粦阝)

#### Derived characters

* 𠐕, 𡂰, 𡓏, 𢸜, 𤑲, 𩽂

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1278, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39656
* Dae Jaweon: page 1777, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3797, character 11
* Unihan data for U+9130

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 鄰
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rin): phonetic 粦 (OC *rins) + semantic 阝.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lín (lin$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): leon$^4$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): lìn
    (Hailu, HRS): lin
    (Meixian, Guangdong): lin$^2$
* Northern Min (KCR): lěng
* Eastern Min (BUC): lìng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ling$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): lîn
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ling$^5$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$lin; $^6$len
* 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/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lìn
*** Hakka Romanization System: lin$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: lin$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /lin¹¹/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: lin
*** Sinological IPA: /lin⁵⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: lin$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /lin¹¹/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: lěng
*** Sinological IPA : /leiŋ²¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: lìng
*** Sinological IPA : /l̃iŋ⁵³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: ling$^2$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: líng
*** Sinological IPA : /liŋ¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lîn
*** Tâi-lô: lîn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: liin
*** IPA (Xiamen): /lin²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lin²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /lin¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /lin²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /lin²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ling$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lîng
*** Sinological IPA : /liŋ⁵⁵/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$lin; $^6$len
*** MiniDict: lin$^去$; len$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$lin; $^3$len
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lin²³/, /lən²³/
* Dialectal data
| Variety | Location | edit鄰 |
| Mandarin | Beijing | /lin³⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /lin²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /lin⁴⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /liẽ⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /liə̃⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /lin⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /liẽ²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /liə̃²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /liŋ⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /lĩn⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /liŋ⁵¹/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /nin²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /nin³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /nin²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /lĩ¹/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /lin²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /lin⁵⁵/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /liəŋ¹¹/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | /liŋ¹³/ |
| Jin | Hohhot | /lĩŋ³¹/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /liŋ²³/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /lin¹³/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /lin²¹³/ |
| Wu | Wenzhou | /leŋ³¹/ |
| Hui | Shexian | /liʌ̃⁴⁴/ |
| Hui | Tunxi | /lin⁴⁴/ |
| Xiang | Changsha | /lin¹³/ |
| Xiang | Xiangtan | /nin¹²/ |
| Gan | Nanchang | /lin⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /lin¹¹/ |
| Hakka | Taoyuan | /lin¹¹/ |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /løn²¹/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /lɐn²¹/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /løn²¹/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /lin³⁵/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /liŋ⁵³/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /leiŋ²¹/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /liŋ⁵⁵/ |
| Min | Haikou (Hainanese) | /lin³¹/ |
* Middle Chinese: lin
Rime :
| Character | 鄰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力珍切 |
| Baxter | lin |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /liɪn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /lin/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ljen/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lin/ |
| Li Rong | /liĕn/ |
| Wang Li | /lĭĕn/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /li̯ĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lín |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lan$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*(mə.)rə[n]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*rin/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 鄰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lín |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ lin › |
| Old Chinese | /*(mə.)rə[n]/ |
| English | group of 5 families; neighbor |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 鄰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8195 |
| Phonetic component | 粦 |
| Rime group | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 㷠 |
| Old Chinese | /*rin/ |

### Definitions

鄰
* neighbor; neighborhood
* to be neighboring; to be adjacent

### Compounds

* 下鄰 / 下邻
* 並鄰 / 并邻
* 乞鄰 / 乞邻
* 以鄰為壑 / 以邻为壑 (yǐlínwéihè)
* 切鄰 / 切邻
* 千萬買鄰 / 千万买邻 (qiānwànmǎilín)
* 卜鄰 / 卜邻 (bǔlín)
* 古鄰 / 古邻
* 四鄰 / 四邻
* 四鄰八舍 / 四邻八舍 (sìlínbāshè)
* 地鄰 / 地邻
* 孟母擇鄰 / 孟母择邻
* 季雅買鄰 / 季雅买邻
* 宮鄰金虎 / 宫邻金虎
* 左鄰右舍 / 左邻右舍 (zuǒlínyòushè)
* 德不孤，必有鄰 / 德不孤，必有邻 (débùgū, bìyǒulín)
* 抹鄰 / 抹邻 (mǒlín)
* 排鄰 / 排邻
* 擇鄰 / 择邻
* 敦親睦鄰 / 敦亲睦邻
* 東鄰西舍 / 东邻西舍
* 歡鄰 / 欢邻
* 比鄰 / 比邻 (bǐlín)
* 比鄰而居 / 比邻而居
* 毗鄰 / 毗邻 (pílín)
* 涒鄰 / 涒邻
* 煙火鄰居 / 烟火邻居
* 相鄰 / 相邻 (xiānglín)
* 睦鄰 / 睦邻 (mùlín)
* 禍與福鄰 / 祸与福邻
* 緊鄰 / 紧邻 (jǐnlín)
* 老街舊鄰 / 老街旧邻
* 老鄰居 / 老邻居
* 芳鄰 / 芳邻 (fānglín)
* 街坊鄰居 / 街坊邻居
* 街坊鄰舍 / 街坊邻舍
* 西鄰 / 西邻
* 貼鄰 / 贴邻
* 買鄰 / 买邻
* 車鄰 / 车邻
* 近鄰 / 近邻 (jìnlín)
* 鄉鄰 / 乡邻 (xiānglín)
* 鄰人 / 邻人 (línrén)
* 鄰伍 / 邻伍
* 鄰佑 / 邻佑
* 鄰右 / 邻右
* 鄰國 / 邻国 (línguó)
* 鄰境 / 邻境
* 鄰女窺牆 / 邻女窥墙
* 鄰家 / 邻家 (línjiā)
* 鄰居 / 邻居 (línjū)
* 鄰左 / 邻左
* 鄰座 / 邻座
* 鄰接 / 邻接 (línjiē)
* 鄰敵 / 邻敌
* 鄰曲 / 邻曲
* 鄰村 / 邻村 (líncūn)
* 鄰比 / 邻比 (línbì)
* 鄰熟 / 邻熟
* 鄰睦 / 邻睦
* 鄰舍 / 邻舍 (línshè)
* 鄰角 / 邻角 (línjiǎo)
* 鄰近 / 邻近 (línjìn)
* 鄰近色 / 邻近色
* 鄰邦 / 邻邦 (línbāng)
* 鄰里 (línlǐ)
* 鄰里鄉黨 / 邻里乡党
* 鄰長 / 邻长
* 隔鄰 / 隔邻

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* neighbor
* neighborhood

#### Readings

* Go-on: りん (rin)
* Kan-on: りん (rin)
* Kun: となり (tonari, 鄰)、となる (tonaru, 鄰る)
* Nanori: ちかし (chikashi)

## Korean
### Hanja

鄰 (eumhun 이웃 린 (iut rin), word-initial (South Korea) 이웃 인 (iut in))
* hanja form of 린/인 (“neighbor”)
* hanja form of 린/인 (“neighborhood”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

鄰: Hán Nôm readings: lân, láng, lăn, trăn, trằn
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