廉 (lián)
Inexpensive; honest (bound form used in 物美價廉)
How 廉 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 广 — house on cliff
- Traditional
- 廉
- Simplified
- 廉 (unchanged)
Components
- 广 house on cliff
- 丷 eight/divide
- 一 one
- 八 eight/divide
- ⺕ pig snout
Common words using 廉
- 廉價 liánjià
- cheaply-priced
- 低廉 dīlián
- cheap; inexpensive; low
- 價廉物美 jiàliánwùměi
- fig. the price is cheap but the product is beautiful; lit. a bargain buy
- 廉恥 liánchǐ
- honor and shame; sense of honour
- 廉政 liánzhèng
- honest or clean politics
- 廉江 liánjiāng
- Lianjiang county level city in Zhanjiang 湛江[Zhan4 jiang1], Guangdong
- 廉潔 liánjié
- honest; not coercive; honesty
- 清廉 qīnglián
- honest; uncorrupted
- 物美價廉 wùměijiàlián
- good quality and cheap; a bargain
- 孝廉 xiàolián
- xiaolian, two examination subjects in Han, later a single subject in Ming and Qing; successful second degree candidate
- 廉江市 liánjiāngshì
- Lianjiang county level city in Zhanjiang 湛江[Zhan4 jiang1], Guangdong
- 禮義廉恥 lǐyìliánchǐ
- sense of propriety, justice, integrity and honour (i.e. the four social bonds, 四維|四维[si4 wei2])
廉 in a sentence
這裡的東西物美價廉。
Zhèlǐ de dōngxi wùměi jiàlián.
“The goods here are high quality and inexpensive.”
How common is 廉?
廉 is the 1,816th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96.4% of all running text.
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