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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *临* | 临* | *临
to face / to overlook / to arrive / to be (just) about to / just before
HSK 7-9
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  *邻* | 邻* | *邻
neighbor / adjacent / close to
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  *林* | 林* | *林
surname Lin / Japanese surname Hayashi
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  *林* | 林* | *林
(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
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  *拎* | 拎* | *拎
to lift up; to carry in one's hand / Taiwan pr. [ling1]
HSK 7-9
Brigitte Lin (1954-), Taiwanese actress
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  *廪* | 廪* | *廪
government granary
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  *淋* | 淋* | *淋
to sprinkle / to drip / to pour / to drench
HSK 7-9
Jia Baoyu, male character in The Dream of Red Mansions, in love with his cousin Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 but obliged to marry Xue Baochai 薛寶釵|薛宝钗
Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842
Ruby Lin (1976-), Taiwanese actress and pop singer
Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer, linguist and inventor
Jeremy Lin (1988-), Taiwanese-American professional basketball player (NBA)
Lin Chong, one of the Heroes of the Marsh in Water Margin
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  *冧* | 冧* | *冧
(Cantonese) to topple / to collapse / to coax / flower bud
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  *嶙* | 嶙* | *嶙
ranges of hills
candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination / see 狀元|状元
Lin county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西
Uncle Tom's Cabin, translated and adapted by Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, then executed in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979
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  *麟* | 麟* | *麟
see 麒麟
Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into Classical Chinese
(literary) horse with a dappled coat
Lin Daiyu, female character in The Dream of Red Mansions, cousin and thwarted lover of Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉
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  *赁* | 赁* | *赁
to rent
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  *凛* | 凛* | *凛
cold / to shiver with cold / to tremble with fear / afraid / apprehensive / strict / stern / severe / austere / awe-inspiring / imposing / majestic
Lin Biao (1908–1971), Chinese army leader at the time of the Cultural Revolution
Lin Chi-ling (1974-), Taiwanese model and actress
Lin county in Henan
(Minnan dialect) male genitals / penis
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  *吝* | 吝* | *吝
(bound form) stingy
Lin Sen (1868-1943), revolutionary politician, colleague of Sun Yat-sen, chairman of the Chinese nationalist government (1928-1932)
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  *淋* | 淋* | *淋
to filter / to strain / to drain / gonorrhea / (TCM) strangury
Chang-lin Tien (1935-2002), Chinese-American professor and chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley 1990-1997
Linsanity / craze over Jeremy Lin 林書豪|林书豪
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  *僯* | 僯* | *僯
ashamed
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  *粼* | 粼* | *粼
clear (as of water)
phosphonium
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  *辚* | 辚* | *辚
rumbling of wheels
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  *鳞* | 鳞* | *鳞
scales (of fish, snakes etc)
Lin Bu (967-1028), Northern Song poet
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  *潾* | 潾* | *潾
clear (as of water)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *琳* | 琳* | *琳
gem
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  *瞵* | 瞵* | *瞵
to stare at
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  *遴* | 遴* | *遴
surname Lin
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  *遴* | 遴* | *遴
(literary) to select
Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
Lin Hwai-Min (1947-), Taiwanese choreographer and dancer
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  *霖* | 霖* | *霖
continued rain
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  *蔺* | 蔺* | *蔺
surname Lin
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蔺* | 蔺* | *蔺
juncus effusus
courtesy name of Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
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  *邻* | 邻* | *邻
variant of 鄰|邻
the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐
Lin Chia-Chiao (1916-2013), Chinese-American physicist, astronomer and applied mathematician
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *躏* | 躏* | *躏
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *惏* | 惏* | *惏
cold / frigid
Lin Fong-cheng (1940-), Taiwanese politician
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *檩* | 檩* | *檩
cross-beam / ridge-pole
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  *獜* | 獜* | *獜
firefly
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  *菻* | 菻* | *菻
ancient name for east Roman empire
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  *醂* | 醂* | *醂
used in 味醂
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  *磷* | 磷* | *磷
(chemistry) phosphorus
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  *懔* | 懔* | *懔
fear
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  *啉* | 啉* | *啉
used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉 and quinoline 喹啉
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  *膦* | 膦* | *膦
phosphine
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  *亃* | 亃* | *亃
mythical animal, said to have yellow body and white tail
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *麟* | 麟* | *麟
variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吝* | 吝* | *吝
variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *璘* | 璘* | *璘
luster of gem
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *痳* | 痳* | *痳
hernia / urinary hesitancy / erroneous variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磷* | 磷* | *磷
variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磷* | 磷* | *磷
variant of
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  *澟* | 澟* | *澟
old variant of 凜|凛
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  *躙* | 躙* | *躙
variant of 躪|躏, to trample down / to oppress / to overrun


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