臨

Meaning

臨 centers on being present and facing a situation directly: looking toward something, confronting it, meeting it, or attending to it. The idea of calling on someone is a natural extension of going to face them.

• 臨床りんしょう

  clinical (e.g. pathology, training, trial)

• 臨時りんじ
  N2

  temporary; provisional; interim

• 臨むのぞむ
  N1

  to look out on; to overlook; to front onto

• 降臨こうりん

  descent (to earth, esp. of a god); advent; epiphany

• 君臨くんりん

  reigning (over a country)

• 臨場りんじょう

  visit; presence; attendance

• 臨界りんかい

  boundary

• 臨海りんかい

  coastal; seaside; oceanfront; maritime

• 臨機応変りんきおうへん

  adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing by ear; ad hoc approach

• 臨終りんじゅう
  N1

  deathbed; dying hour; one's death

• 再臨さいりん

  second coming; second advent

• 臨戦りんせん

  preparing for action or battle

• 臨月りんげつ

  final month of pregnancy; month in which childbirth is due

• 臨済宗りんざいしゅう

  Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism

• 臨死りんし

  near-death; close to death

• 臨席りんせき

  attendance; presence

• 臨港りんこう

  facing (along) the harbor (harbour)

• 光臨こうりん

  arrival; visit; call

• 臨検りんけん

  on-the-spot investigation or inspection; raid

• 臨場感りんじょうかん

  (sense of) presence; feeling as if one was there; feeling of actually being there; realism; ambiance

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