lín

Components

Sound component
lín will-o'-the wisp, phosphorus
Meaning component
chuān, shùn river

river

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrin
rins

說文解字

水生厓石閒粼粼也。从巜粦聲。

Sources

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