琳
lín

beautiful jade

Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 林 represents the sound.

Components

王
王 Meaning component
wáng king
林
林 Sound component
lín forest

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangɡ·rɯm
Unicodelim

說文解字

美玉也。从玉林聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)