# 比鄰
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bǐlín, bìlín
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˇ ㄌㄧㄣˊ, ㄅㄧˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bei$^2$ leon$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pí-lîn
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bǐlín
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˇ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bǐlín
*** Wade–Giles: pi$^3$-lin$^2$
*** Yale: bǐ-lín
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biilin
*** Palladius: билинь (bilinʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi²¹⁴⁻²¹ lin³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bìlín
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bìlín
*** Wade–Giles: pi$^4$-lin$^2$
*** Yale: bì-lín
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihlin
*** Palladius: билинь (bilinʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵¹ lin³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bei$^2$ leon$^4$
*** Yale: béi lèuhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bei$^2$ loen$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: béi$^2$ lên$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /pei̯³⁵ lɵn²¹/
*** Homophones: $^{edit}$比鄰／比邻 毗鄰／毗邻
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pí-lîn
*** Tâi-lô: pí-lîn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pyliin
*** IPA (Xiamen): /pi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/
* Middle Chinese: bjijH|pjijH lin
Rime :
| Character | 比 | 比 | 鄰 |
| Reading # | 3/5 | 4/5 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 幫 (1) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) | 脂 (15) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III | III |
| Fanqie | 毗至切 | 必至切 | 力珍切 |
| Baxter | bjijH | pjijH | lin |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /biɪ$^H$/ | /piɪ$^H$/ | /liɪn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bi$^H$/ | /pi$^H$/ | /lin/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bjɪ$^H$/ | /pjɪ$^H$/ | /ljen/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bi$^H$/ | /pi$^H$/ | /lin/ |
| Li Rong | /bi$^H$/ | /pi$^H$/ | /liĕn/ |
| Wang Li | /bi$^H$/ | /pi$^H$/ | /lĭĕn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /bʱi$^H$/ | /pi$^H$/ | /li̯ĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bì | bì | lín |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bei$^6$ | bei$^3$ | lan$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pij-s (mə.)rə[n]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*bis|pis rin/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 比 | 鄰 |
| Reading # | 2/2 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bì | lín |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pjij$^H$ › | ‹ lin › |
| Old Chinese | /*pij-s/ | /*(mə.)rə[n]/ |
| English | combine; all | 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 | 比 | 比 | 鄰 |
| Reading # | 4/5 | 2/5 | 1/1 |
| No. | 542 | 521 | 8195 |
| Phonetic component | 比 | 比 | 粦 |
| Rime group | 脂 | 脂 | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 鼻 | 痹 | 㷠 |
| Old Chinese | /*bis/ | /*pis/ | /*rin/ |

### Noun

比鄰
* (literary) neighbor
    From: Wang Bo, Sending Off Du Shaofu to Shuzhou
    Hǎinèi cún zhījǐ, tiānyá ruò bǐlín. [Pinyin]
    Within the four seas I have a bosom friend, as close as my neighbour even when he is far away.
* vicinage

#### Synonyms

* 鄰人／邻人 (línrén)
* 鄰居／邻居 (línjū)
* 鄰比／邻比 (línbì) (literary)

### Verb

比鄰
* (literary) to be near; to be close; to be next to

#### Synonyms

* 倚近 (Hokkien)
* 傍依 (bàngyī)
* 傍邊／傍边 (bàngbiān) (colloquial)
* 向邇／向迩 (xiàng'ěr) (literary)
* 把 (colloquial)
* 挨近 (āijìn)
* 挨邊／挨边 (āibiān) (colloquial, to be close to an age or number)
* 接 (jiē)
* 接近 (jiējìn)
* 擦 (cā)
* 湊／凑 (còu)
* 瀕於／濒于 (bīnyú) (of something undesirable)
* 瀕臨／濒临 (bīnlín)
* 相鄰／相邻 (xiānglín)
* 臨近／临近 (línjìn)
* 親近／亲近 (qīnjìn)
* 鄰近／邻近 (línjìn)
* 附 (fù)
* 靠近 (kàojìn)

### Derived terms

* 天涯若比鄰／天涯若比邻 (tiānyá ruò bǐlín)
* 比鄰星／比邻星 (Bǐlínxīng)
* 比鄰而居／比邻而居