臨 is the Japanese kanji for face, look to, meet, confront, attend, call on. It is written with 18 strokes and appears at JLPT level N1. Its kun reading is のぞ.む and its on reading is リン.
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Words with 臨
- 臨むto look out on, to overlook, to front onto
- 臨時temporary, provisional, interim
- 臨床clinical (e.g. pathology, training, trial)
- 臨海coastal, seaside, oceanfront
- 君臨reigning (over a country)
- 臨界boundary
Practice 臨 with brush strokes, spaced repetition and quizzes in the app.