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霖

lín

Character

What 霖 means

1. continued rain

Example sentences

• 柏霖昨天在夜市遇到前女友，尴尬到不行。
  Po-lin ran into his ex at the night market yesterday. It was super awkward.

Words containing 霖

• 张作霖Zhāng Zuò línZhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928
• 春霖chūn línspring rains
• 田长霖Tián Cháng línChang-lin Tien (1935–2002), Chinese-American professor, chancellor of the University of…
• 味霖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
• 淋línto sprinkle; to drip; to pour
• 琳língem
• 彬bīnurbane; well-bred; cultivated
• 啉línused in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉

Characters that look like 霖

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

• 霜shuāngfrost; white powder or cream spread over a surface; frosting
• 蕊ruǐstamen; pistil
• 簇cù(bound form) to cluster; to pile up; cluster; pile…
• 襄xiāng(literary) to assist
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
• 嬴Yíngsurname Ying

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)
• 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