lín

neighbor

Variant of .

Components

Meaning component
hill, place
Sound component
lín will-o'-the wisp, phosphorus

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle Chinese
Unicodelin

Sources

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