Reading

ryun

(yun) when it starts a word — see below.

Also read (yun)

normal human relationships

인륜 륜illyun ryun

Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 인륜 (illyun) is the Korean for normal human relationships, and (ryun) is the reading. Say 인륜 륜 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.

Strokes
10
Radical
⼈ 9
Beyond radical
8
Mandarin
lún
Japanese on
rin
Japanese kun
tagui

두음법칙 · initial sound rule

This one changes shape at the start of a word.

The dictionary reading is , but South Korean spelling writes when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.

Word-initial

倫常 윤상 yunsang倫次 윤차 yuncha

Elsewhere in the word

大倫 대륜 daeryun等倫 등륜 deungnyun不倫 불륜 bullyun

Vocabulary

Words that use

Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.

None of the words forms are in the English dictionary this section uses, so each one shows its literal composition instead. That usually means the character survives mainly in names, dates and classical text rather than in everyday Korean.

倫常윤상yunsang

Literal reading, not a dictionary entry

normal human relationships + common

Same sound, different character

2 characters are all read (ryun).

Korean has far more hanja than it has syllables, so one sound covers many characters. Write in hangul and it could be any of these — the hanja is what says which one you mean. That is why hanja still turn up in dictionaries, newspaper headlines and legal writing, where guessing from context is not good enough.

All of them are written in hangul.

Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.