琳
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gem
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 玉 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 琳
- Common rank
- #2,534
- Unicode
- U+7433
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 琳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 关之琳 | Rosamund Kwan (1962-), Hong Kong actress | |
| 琳·戴维斯 | Lynn E. Davis (1943-), US academic and arms control expert, undersecretary of state 1993-1… | |
| 叶卡捷琳堡 | Yekaterinburg (Russian city, also known as Ekaterinburg or Sverdlovsk) | |
| 玛德琳 | Madeleine (name) | |
| 玛德琳 | madeleine (French cake) | |
| 叶卡捷琳娜 | Yekaterina or Ekaterina (name); Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), E… | |
| 罗琳 | Rowling (name); Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-), author of the Harry Potter series of nove… | |
| 杰奎琳·肯尼迪 | Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy (1929-1994) | |
| 满目琳琅 | see 琳瑯滿目|琳琅满目[lin2 lang2 man3 mu4] | |
| 琳琅满目 | (idiom) to be a feast for the eyes; to be a cornucopia of delights; to be diverse and abun… | |
| 圣凯瑟琳 | Saint Catherine | |
| 埃琳娜 | Elena (name) | |
| 陈仲琳 | Chen Zhonglin, aka Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳|许仲琳[Xu3 Zhong4 lin2] (c. 1567–c. 1620), Ming novelist, … | |
| 凯瑟琳 | Catherine (name); Katherine | |
| 许仲琳 | Xu Zhonglin or Chen Zhonglin 陳仲琳|陈仲琳[Chen2 Zhong4 lin2] (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, … | |
| 杰奎琳 | Jacqueline (name) | |
| 琳琅 | glittering jewels | |
| 杨丞琳 | Rainie Yang (1984-), Taiwanese entertainer |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 林 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 林 sound part | forest, grove; surname | |
| 禁 | to restrict, to prohibit, to forbid; to endure | |
| 淋 | to drench, to drip, to soak; perfectly | |
| 彬 | ornamental; cultivated, refined, well-bred | |
| 啉 | stupid; slow | |
| 霖 | monsoon; a long spell of rain | |
| 婪 | to covet; covetous, avaricious | |
| 痲 | pock-marked; measles; leprosy | |
| 郴 | a county in Hunan province; surname |