You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Foot (zú) Character: lin Kangxi Strokes: 19 Page 1234, Entry 02 Pronounced lin (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To crush or grind underfoot. Leipian (Classified Dictionary): The appearance of walking. Sometimes also written in a variant form (lin). Also, according to Jiyun (Rhyme Collection of Collected Explanations), pronounced lin (level tone). The meaning is the same.