lín

rumbling of vehicles

Components

Meaning component
chē cart, vehicle

cart

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

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

rumbling of vehicles Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangrin
rins
Unicodelin

說文解字

車聲。从車粦聲。

Sources

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