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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

倫: ethics, companion

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 侖 gives the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

リンrin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 倫理りんりethics; morals
  • 不倫ふりんadultery; impropriety; (an) affair
  • 倫理的りんりてきethical
  • 映倫えいりんEirin
  • 倫理学りんりがくethics; moral philosophy

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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侖

Also built on 侖

倫 takes the 侖 family's reading, リン (rin).

Also read リン

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
倫 ethics · 侖
vs偏 partial · 扁
倫 has 侖 where 偏 has 扁.
In ChineseSimplified 伦 · traditional, as in Japanese · lún

Japan keeps the traditional form 倫; mainland China simplifies it to 伦.

Simplified
伦 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
倫 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lún most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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