lín
long spell of rain
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 林 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 霖
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
continued rain | ||
Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928 | ||
Chang-lin Tien (1935-2002), Chinese-American professor and chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley 1990-1997 |