鈴

鈴 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金人戈戈 (COII), four-corner 8813₇, composition ⿰釒令)

• 𫫿, 𤪊, 𮤧

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1299, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40267
• Dae Jaweon: page 1802, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4187, character 16
• Unihan data for U+9234
• Unihan data for U+F9B1

Historical forms of the character 鈴
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *reːŋ) : semantic 金 + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ (“sound; noise; animal cry”); cognate with 鳴 (OC *mreŋ, “to make a sound”), 笙 (OC *sreŋ), Burmese မြည် (mrany, “to make a sound”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

鈴

1. bell; chime

   Synonyms: 鈴仔／铃仔 (Min Nan), 䤝仔／𲇳仔 (Min Nan), 䤝／𲇳 (Min Nan)

2. a surname: Ling

Possibly borrowed from English rim.

鈴

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 軨／𫐉 (“wheel rim”) (Classifier: 條／条 c)
   • 2017 April 20, “【車主教室】車鈴越大制動越弱　雨天高危隨時水上飄”, in Apple Daily‎, archived from the original on 2021-06-21:

     現今車主為了自己部車美觀，條鈴有咁大得咁大，但各位車主知唔知輪圈大一吋對部車有咩影響呢？

     Car owners nowadays try to make their cars to have a better appearance and makes the car's wheel rim as large as possible. But do you car owners know what are the effects does a larger wheel rim have on the car?

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04287
• “鈴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #10283”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. bell, chime

• Go-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りやう (ryau, historical)}
• Kan-on: れい (rei, Jōyō)
• Tō-on: りん (rin, Jōyō)
• Kun: すず (suzu, 鈴, Jōyō)

From Old Japanese. First cited in the Kojiki of 712, and in the Man'yōshū of 759 with the phonetic spelling 須受 (suzu).[1]

Possibly related to 涼しい (suzushii, “cool, refreshing”) and 涼む (suzumu, “cool off”).

• (Tokyo) すず [sùzú] (Heiban – [0])[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [sɨᵝzɨᵝ]

鈴(すず) • (suzu) 

1. [from 712] a bell, chime

   Synonym: ベル (beru)

   • 711–712, Kojiki, poem 82:

     美夜比登能(みやひとの)阿由比能古(あゆひのこ)須受(すず)淤知爾岐登(おちにきと)美夜比登登余牟(みやひととよむ)佐斗毘登母由米(さとびともゆめ) [Man'yōgana]

     宮人(みやひと)の足(あ)結(ゆひ)の小(こ)鈴(すず)落(お)ちにきと宮人(みやひと)とよむ里人(さとびと)もゆめ [Modern spelling]

     miya-hito no ayui no kosuzu ochi-ni-ki to miya-hito toyomu sato-bito mo yume

     (please add an English translation of this example)

2. [from 759] (historical) Synonym of 駅鈴 (ekirei): station bells issued to 駅使 (ekishi)
3. [from 720] 鐸: a large wind chime, a hanging bell with a clapper

鈴(すず) • (Suzu) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

From Middle Chinese 鈴 (MC leng).

• (Tokyo) れ​ー [réꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][4]
• IPA^(key): [ɾe̞ː]

鈴(れい) • (rei) 

1. a bell, chime
2. (Buddhism) a singing bowl

鈴(れい) • (Rei) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

From Mandarin 鈴／铃 (líng).

• (Tokyo) り​ん [ríꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][4]
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲĩɴ]

鈴(りん) • (rin) 

1. a bell, chime
2. an electric bell

   Synonym: 電鈴 (denrei)

3. (Buddhism) a singing bowl

鈴(りん) • (Rin) 

1. a female given name

鈴 • (ryeong>yeong) (hangeul 령>영, revised ryeong>yeong, McCune–Reischauer ryŏng>yŏng, Yale lyeng>yeng)

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鈴: Hán Nôm readings: linh, lệnh

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