漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
臨: look to, face
Also: meet, confront, attend, call on
JLPT N118 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
- 臣road(meaning)
- 𠂉(form)
- 品goods(form)
臣 carries the meaning · 𠂉 and 品 are drawn in
18 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
リンrin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 臨終りんじゅうdeathbed, dying hour
- 臨時りんじtemporary, extraordinary
- 臨場感りんじょうかん(stage, personal) presence
- 臨床医りんしょういclinician
- 臨機応変りんきおうへんaccording to circumstance
- 臨席するりんせきするattend, be present
- 君臨するくんりんするreign, control, dictate
のぞむnozomu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 臨むのぞむlook out on, face, deal with
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)臣 eye (meaning) + 人 person (meaning) + 品 objects (sound)
A person looking down at some objects.
Source: Wiktionary, 臨 (rev. 93620777), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Minister (臣) + goods + person. A formal "minister" or official arriving to "face" a situation or "visit" a site—to be present at an event.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read リン
11 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 临 · traditional, as in Japanese · lín
Japan keeps the traditional form 臨; mainland China simplifies it to 临.
- Simplified
- 临 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 臨 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lín 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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