Reading
인 (in) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 인 (in)
neighbor; neighborhood
이웃 린iut rin
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 이웃 (iut) is the Korean for neighbor, and 린 (rin) is the reading. Say 이웃 린 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- ⾢ 163
- Beyond radical
- 12
- Mandarin
- lín
- Japanese on
- rin
- Japanese kun
- tonari
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 린, but South Korean spelling writes 인 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
인
鄰近 인근 ingeun鄰屋 인옥 inok鄰友 인우 inu
Elsewhere in the word
린
交鄰 교린 gyorin近鄰 근린 geullin東鄰 동린 dongnin
Vocabulary
Words that use 鄰
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 鄰 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.
Literal reading, not a dictionary entry
neighbor + near
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.