línLín

select

Components

Meaning component
chuò walk

walk

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

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrins

說文解字

行難也。从辵㷠聲。《易》曰:“以往䢯。”

Sources

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