Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

凜: cold, strict

Also: severe

JLPT N115 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

冫 carries the meaning · 稟 is drawn in

15 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

リンrin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 凜りんcold; frigid; bracing
  • 凜然りんぜんcommanding; awe-inspiring
  • 凜々りんりんsevere; intense; awe-inspiring

Also read きびしい, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Brrr, it's freezing! Imagine two sharp icicles hanging from the edge of a roof.”
More in the 冫 ice story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
冫

Also built on ice (冫)

All 18

Also read リン

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
凜 cold · 冫 + 稟
vs檀 cedar · 木 + 亶
凜 has 冫 + 稟 where 檀 has 木 + 亶.
In ChineseSimplified 凛 · traditional, as in Japanese · lǐn

Japan keeps the traditional form 凜; mainland China simplifies it to 凛.

Simplified
凛 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
凜 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lǐn 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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