lín

beautiful jade

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

林 sound component

  Sound component

lín

  

forest

Evolution

琳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
琳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

lín

beautiful jade, gem; gem

Most common words with 琳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

gem

凯瑟琳

Katherine

琳琅满目

fig. a dazzling lineup

罗琳

Rowling (name)

关之琳

Rosamund Kwan (1962-), Hong Kong actress

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.5284% of movies

1231st most common character in movies

2400th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7433

Shuowen

“琳,美玉也。从玉,林聲。”


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