Reading
염 (yeom) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 염 (yeom)
upright, honorable, honest
청렴할 렴cheongnyeomhal ryeom
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 청렴할 (cheongnyeomhal) is the Korean for upright, and 렴 (ryeom) is the reading. Say 청렴할 렴 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- ⼴ 53
- Beyond radical
- 10
- Mandarin
- lián
- Japanese on
- ren
- Japanese kun
- kado
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 렴, but South Korean spelling writes 염 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
염
廉正 염정 yeomjeong廉客 염객 yeomgaek廉明 염명 yeommyeong
Elsewhere in the word
렴
淸廉 청렴 cheongnyeom
Vocabulary
Words that use 廉
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
incorruptibilty, probity
Character by character clear + upright
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.