鱗

See also 鳞

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 粦

Han character

鱗 (radical 195 魚+12, 23 strokes, cangjie input 弓火火木手 (NFFDQ), four-corner 2935₉)

1. fish scales

References

• KangXi: page 1478, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46502
• Dae Jaweon: page 2010, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4715, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9C57

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鱗 (simplified 鳞, Yale leun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

鱗

Readings

• On: りん (rin)
• Kun: うろこ (uroko)

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Korean

Hanja

鱗 (hangeul 린>인, revised rin>in, McCune-Reischauer rin>in, Yale lin>in)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鱗 (simplified 鳞, pinyin lín (lin2), shàn (shan4), Wade-Giles lin², shan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鱗 (lân)