Chinese Character Wiki

廉

lián

upright

Evolution

廉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
廉 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
廉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

廉  

lián

upright, honorable, honest; incorruptible; honest; inexpensive; to investigate (old); side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old)

廉  

Lián

surname Lian

廉 (㢘) 

lián

old variant of 廉[lián]

Most common words with 廉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

威廉

William or Wilhelm (name)

廉

honest

廉价

low-cost

廉政

honest or clean politics

廉洁

honest

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

簾

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

鐮 镰 濂 臁 蠊

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*(k-)rem

ljem

lián

frugal

*[r]em

ljem

lián

angle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.2744% of movies

1736th most common character in movies

1818th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+5EC9

Shuowen

“廉，仄也。从广，兼聲。”


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