濂

濂 U+6FC2, 濂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6FC2 ← 濁 [U+6FC1] CJK Unified Ideographs 濃 → [U+6FC3]

Translingual

Han character

濂 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水戈廿金 (EITC) or 難水戈廿金 (XEITC), four-corner 3013₇, composition ⿰氵廉)

1. a waterfall
2. A river in Hunan

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 654, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18441
• Dae Jaweon: page 1064, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1763, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6FC2

Chinese

simp. and trad.		濂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
譧	*r'eːms
賺	*r'eːms
尲	*kreːm
鹻	*kreːmʔ
歉	*kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms
槏	*kʰreːmʔ
鰜	*ɡreːm, *keːm
稴	*ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm
豏	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms
甉	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm
廉	*ɡ·rem
鎌	*ɡ·rem
鬑	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
鐮	*ɡ·rem
簾	*ɡ·rem
薕	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
蠊	*ɡ·rem
嬚	*ɡ·remʔ
溓	*ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ
嵰	*kʰremʔ
隒	*ŋɡremʔ
熑	*ɡ·reːm
濂	*ɡ·reːm
燫	*ɡ·reːm
兼	*keːm, *keːms
縑	*keːm
鶼	*keːm
蒹	*keːm
搛	*keːm
謙	*kʰeːm
膁	*kʰeːmʔ
嗛	*kʰeːmʔ
慊	*kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb
傔	*kʰeːms
馦	*qʰeːm
嫌	*ɡeːm
鼸	*ɡeːmʔ
尷	*kreːm

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·reːm) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 廉 (OC *ɡ·rem)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lián (lian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lim⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liâm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lián
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lián
    • Wade–Giles: lien²
    • Yale: lyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lian
    • Palladius: лянь (ljanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lim⁴
    • Yale: lìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lim⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liâm
    • Tâi-lô: liâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liaam
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liam²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liam²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liam¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liam²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liam²³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·reːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	濂
Reading #	1/1
No.	6058
Phonetic component	兼
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鬑
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·reːm/

Definitions

濂

1. a waterfall
2. A river in Hunan

Compounds

• 濂洛關閩 / 濂洛关闽
• 濂溪
• 濂濂

Japanese

Kanji

濂

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): れん (ren)、でん (den)
• Kun: うすい (usui)、まじえる (majieru)

Korean

Hanja

濂 • (ryeom>yeom) (hangeul 렴>염, revised ryeom>yeom, McCune–Reischauer ryŏm>yŏm, Yale lyem>yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

濂: Hán Nôm readings: nhèm

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