临
lín HSK4

draw near

临 臨 lín
to arrive verb
to arrive; to be present; to descend upon
to face verb
to face; to overlook from a height; to be near to or adjacent to
just before adjectiveverb
to be about to; on the point of; just prior to
to copy
to copy or trace a model of calligraphy or painting
to govern
(literary) to govern; to rule over
Lin (hexagram)
(bound form) name of one of the sixty-four hexagrams in the 易经 yì​jīng
Lin (surname)
a Chinese surname
to shine upon
(literary) to shine upon; to illuminate

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
839th most common 212.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,063rd most common 93.0 per million appears in 40% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.43 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
27.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
臨
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+4E34

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)