lín

to stare at

Components

Meaning component
eye

eye

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

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrin
rins

說文解字

目精也。从目粦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica