lián

pity

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
xin, xīn heart

heart

Sound component
lín will-o'-the wisp, phosphorus

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlenrˤiŋ love; pity

說文解字

《說文》:“憐,哀也。从心,粦聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica