lìn
stingy
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə.rə[n]-s | linH | lìn | stingy |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6178% of movies
3212th most common character in movies
3507th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+541D |
Shuowen | “吝，恨惜也。从口，文聲。《易》曰：‘以往吝。’呅，古文吝从彣。” |
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