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淋

lín

HSK 6 Character

What 淋 means

1. to sprinkle
2. to drip
3. to pour
4. to drench

Other readings

淋 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• lìnto filter; to strain; to drain

Example sentences

• 淋浴坏了。
  The shower is broken.
• 别被雨淋了。
  Stay out of the rain.
• 我当时在淋浴。
  I was taking a shower then.
• 热得想吃冰淇淋。
  The heat is making me crave for an ice cream.
• 我不会吃冰淇淋。
  I will not eat ice cream.
• 给我留点冰淇淋。
  Leave me a bit of ice cream.

Words starting with 淋

• 淋漓尽致lín lí jìn zhìlit. extreme saturation (idiom); fig. vividly and thoroughly; in great detail
• 淋浴lín yùto take a shower; shower
• 淋漓lín lídripping wet; pouring; saturated
• 淋湿lín shīto get soaked
• 淋雨lín yǔto get wet in the rain
• 淋病lìn bìnggonorrhea; Taiwan pr. lín bìng
• 淋巴lín bā(physiology) (loanword) lymph
• 淋巴液lín bā yèlymph
• 淋巴管lín bā guǎnlymphatic vessel
• 淋巴结lín bā jiélymph node; lymph gland
• 淋巴系统lín bā xì tǒnglymphatic system
• 淋巴细胞lín bā xì bāolymphocyte
• 淋巴癌lín bā áilymphoma (lay term for 淋巴瘤
• 淋球菌lìn qiú jūngonococcus; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the pathogen causing gonorrhea
• 淋溶土lìn róng tǔargosol (soil taxonomy)
• 淋溶层lín róng céngalluvium (soil deposited by rivers)
• 淋巴腺lín bā xiànlymph node; lymph gland
• 淋巴瘤lín bā liúlymphoma

Words containing 淋

• 冰淇淋bīng qí línice cream
• 血淋淋xiě lín línbloody; blood-soaked; gory; grisly; cruel; brutal; harsh; grim; bitter
• 大汗淋漓dà hàn lín lídripping with sweat
• 酣畅淋漓hān chàng lín líto one's heart's content (idiom)
• 水淋淋shuǐ lín líndripping wet
• 冲淋浴chōng lín yùto take a shower
• 狗血淋头gǒu xuè lín tóulit. to pour dog's blood on (idiom); fig. torrent of abuse
• 淇淋qí líncream (loanword)
• 霜淇淋shuāng qí línsoft ice-cream
• 麦淇淋mài qí lín(loanword) margarine
• 眼睛吃冰淇淋yǎn jing chī bīng qí lín(slang; Taiwan) to be checking out the hotties
• 日晒雨淋rì shài yǔ línlit. exposed to sun and rain (idiom); fig. exposed to the elements
• 痛快淋漓tòng kuài lín líjoyous; hearty; spirited
• 鲜血淋漓xiān xuè lín lí(idiom) drenched with blood; dripping with blood
• 味淋wèi línvariant of 味醂

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
• 琳língem
• 彬bīnurbane; well-bred; cultivated
• 霖líncontinued rain
• 啉línused in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉

Characters that look like 淋

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

• 排páito arrange in order; to line up; to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel…
• 琳língem
• 袖xiùsleeve; to tuck inside one's sleeve
• 棘jíthorns
• 婉wǎngraceful; tactful
• 淞Sōngname of a river in Jiangsu Province

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
• 琳gem
• 鳞scales (of fish, snakes etc)
• 霖continued rain
• 磷(chemistry) phosphorus
• 遴(literary) to select
• 粼clear (as of water)
• 啉used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉
• 嶙ranges of hills
• 璘luster of gem