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啉

lín

Character

What 啉 means

1. used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin {卟啉|bǔ lín} and quinoline {喹啉|kuí lín}

Words containing 啉

• 吗啉mǎ línmorpholine (chemistry) (loanword)
• 恶唑啉è zuò línoxacillin
• 恶唑啉酮è zuò lín tóngoxacillin
• 喹啉kuí línquinoline C6H4(CH)3N (pharm.) (loanword)
• 卟啉bǔ línporphyrin (organic chemical essential to hemoglobin and chlorophyll) (loanword)

Characters built on 林

These share the phonetic component 林 (lín), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 禁jìnto prohibit; to forbid
• 淋línto sprinkle; to drip; to pour
• 琳língem
• 彬bīnurbane; well-bred; cultivated
• 霖líncontinued rain

Characters that look like 啉

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 啦lā(onomatopoeia) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat
• 淋línto sprinkle; to drip; to pour
• 琳língem
• 铱yīiridium (chemistry)
• 郴chēnused in 郴州
• 铈shìcerium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read lín, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 林(bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people)…
• 邻neighbor; adjacent; close to
• 临to face; to overlook; to arrive
• 淋to sprinkle; to drip; to pour
• 琳gem
• 鳞scales (of fish, snakes etc)
• 霖continued rain
• 磷(chemistry) phosphorus
• 遴(literary) to select
• 粼clear (as of water)
• 嶙ranges of hills
• 璘luster of gem