吝 (lìn): (bound form) stingy
吝 (lìn) is a Chinese character meaning “(bound form) stingy.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 文 (structural) and 口 (structural). It ranks #3005 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- (bound form) stingy
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吝啬adjective | lìn sè | stingy |
| 吝啬鬼noun | lìn sè guǐ | miser |
| 不吝verb | bù lìn | not to stint |
| 吝惜verb | lìn xī | to stint |
| 不吝赐教phrase | bù lìn cì jiào | to be so kind as to enlighten me |
| 不吝珠玉 | bù lìn zhū yù | (idiom) (courteous) please give me your frank opinion |
| 悭吝adjective | qiān lìn | (literary) miserly |
| 鄙吝adjective | bǐ lìn | vulgar |
吝 appears in 8 compound words: 38 as the first character, 38 as the last, and 25 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 吝 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
请吝下这杯茶,解解渴再继续工作。
qǐng lìn xià zhè bēi chá , jiě jiě kě zài jì xù gōng zuò .
Please help yourself to this cup of tea to quench your thirst before getting back to work.
谈起年轻队友,汪顺毫不吝惜赞美之词。
tán qǐ nián qīng duì yǒu , wāng shùn háo bù lìn xī zàn měi zhī cí .
When it comes to his younger teammates, Wang Shun is full of praise.
大概是招待徒步者们的丰富经验也能理解我们的饥寒交迫,她准备起食物毫不吝啬。
dà gài shì zhāo dài tú bù zhě men de fēng fù jīng yàn yě néng lǐ jiě wǒ men de jī hán jiāo pò , tā zhǔn bèi qǐ shí wù háo bù lìn sè .
Perhaps because of her extensive experience hosting hikers, she understood how hungry and cold we were, and she generously prepared food for us.
如今,我不再把妈妈简单地归类为“节俭到吝啬”,而是看到了她背后复杂的人生故事。
rú jīn , wǒ bù zài bǎ mā mā jiǎn dān dì guī lèi wéi jié jiǎn dào lìn sè , ér shì kàn dào le tā bèi hòu fù zá de rén shēng gù shì .
Nowadays, I no longer simply categorize my mother as “frugal to the point of being stingy”; instead, I see the complex life story behind her.
Character Family
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