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臨

臨

See also: 临

Translingual

Han character

臨 (radical 131 臣+11, in Chinese 17 strokes, in Japanese 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸中人口口 (SLORR), four-corner 78766, composition ⿰臣⿱𠂉品)

References

  • KangXi: page 999, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30087
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1451, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2802, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+81E8

Chinese

trad. 臨
simp. 临

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (品) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
臨 *b·rɯm, *b·rɯms
瀶 *b·rɯm
品 *pʰrɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *b·rɯm, *b·rɯms) : semantic 臥 + phonetic 品 ‎(OC *pʰrɯmʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 臨 臨
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 侵 (139) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 力尋切 良鴆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liɪm/ /liɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lim/ /limH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljem/ /ljemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lim/ /limH/
Li
Rong		 /liəm/ /liəmH/
Wang
Li		 /lĭĕm/ /lĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯əm/ /li̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lín lìn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 臨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lín
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lim ›
Old
Chinese		 /*(p.)rum/
English look down at

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 臨 臨
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9801 9803
Phonetic
component		 品 品
Rime
group		 侵 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 林 臨
Old
Chinese		 /*b·rɯm/ /*b·rɯms/

Definitions

臨

  1. to overlook; to look over
  2. to come down; to descend
  3. to arrive
  4. to face; to border; to be adjacent to
  5. to be faced with; to be confronted by
  6. to copy; to trace
  7. just before
  8. 19th hexagram of the I Ching

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

臨

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. look at
  2. confront

Readings

Korean

Hanja

臨 • ‎(rim>im) (hangeul 림>임, revised rim>im, McCune-Reischauer rim>im, Yale lim>im)

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Vietnamese

Han character

臨 (lâm, lom)

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