鱗

See also: 鳞

鱗 U+9C57, 鱗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9C57 ← 鱖 [U+9C56] CJK Unified Ideographs 鱘 → [U+9C58]

鱗 U+F9F2, 鱗 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9F2 ← 隣 [U+F9F1] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 麟 → [U+F9F3]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

• Unihan data for U+F9F2

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Chinese

trad.		鱗
simp.		鳞
alternative forms		魿／⿰鱼令 䰼／⿰鱼今

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (粦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
潾	*rriːn, *rin
膦	*renʔ
憐	*riːn
燐	*rin, *rins
鄰	*rin
轔	*rin, *rins
嶙	*rin, *rinʔ
粼	*rin, *rins
磷	*rin, *rins
疄	*rin, *rins
麟	*rin
鱗	*rin
璘	*rin
翷	*rin
瞵	*rin, *rins
獜	*rin, *reːŋ
驎	*rin
鏻	*rin, *rins, *reːŋ
繗	*rin
僯	*rinʔ
橉	*rinʔ, *rins
撛	*rinʔ, *rins
遴	*rins
粦	*rins
甐	*rins

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rin) : semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 粦 (OC *rins).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鱗

1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
2. scaly
3. fish (and other scaly animals)
4. a surname

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #13359”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

鱗

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. scales
2. scaly

Readings

• Go-on: りん (rin)
• Kan-on: りん (rin)
• Kun: うろこ (uroko, 鱗)

Compounds

Compounds

• 鱗(うろこ)石(いし) (urokoishi)
• 鱗(うろこ)形(がた) (urokogata)
• 鱗(うろこ)切(ぎ)り (urokogiri)
• 鱗(うろこ)釘(くぎ) (urokokugi)
• 鱗(うろこ)雲(ぐも) (urokogumo), 鱗(りん)雲(うん) (rin'un)
• 鱗(うろこ)虫(むし) (urokomushi)
• 鱗(うろこ)文(もん) (urokomon)
• 円(えん)鱗(りん) (enrin)
• 芽(が)鱗(りん) (garin)
• 魚(ぎょ)鱗(りん) (gyorin)
• 錦(きん)鱗(りん) (kinrin)
• 銀(ぎん)鱗(りん) (ginrin)
• 逆(げき)鱗(りん) (gekirin)
• 硬(こう)鱗(りん)魚(ぎょ) (kōringyo)
• 鱗(こけら)板(いた) (kokeraita)
• 骨(こつ)鱗(りん) (kotsurin)
• 細(さい)鱗(りん) (sairin)
• 三(さん)十(じゅう)六(ろく)鱗(りん) (sanjūrokurin)
• 楯(じゅん)鱗(りん) (junrin)
• 如(じょ)鱗(りん)杢(もく) (jorinmoku)
• 片(へん)鱗(りん) (henrin)
• 三(み)つ鱗(うろこ) (mitsuuroko)
• 目(め)から鱗(うろこ)が落(お)ちる (me kara uroko ga ochiru)

• 有(ゆう)鱗(りん)類(るい) (yūrinrui)
• 稜(りょう)鱗(りん) (ryōrin): scute
• 鯉(り)鱗(りん)行(こう) (ririnkō)
• 鱗(りん)芽(が) (ringa)
• 鱗(りん)介(かい) (rinkai)
• 鱗(りん)形(けい) (rinkei)
• 鱗(りん)茎(けい) (rinkei)
• 鱗(りん)珪(けい)石(せき) (rinkeiseki): tridymite
• 鱗(りん)甲(こう) (rinkō)
• 鱗(りん)翅(し)目(もく) (rinshimoku)
• 鱗(りん)状(じょう) (rinjō)
• 鱗(りん)石(せき)英(えい) (rinsekiei): tridymite
• 鱗(りん)屑(せつ) (rinsetsu)
• 鱗(りん)族(ぞく) (rinzoku)
• 鱗(りん)虫(ちゅう) (rinchū)
• 鱗(りん)鉄(てっ)鉱(こう) (rintekkō): lepidocrocite
• 鱗(りん)被(ぴ) (rinpi): lodicule
• 鱗(りん)粉(ぷん) (rinpun)
• 鱗(りん)片(ぺん) (rinpen)
• 鱗(りん)木(ぼく) (rinboku), 鱗(うろこ)木(ぎ) (urokogi): scale tree
• 鱗(りん)毛(もう) (rinmō)
• 鱗(りん)葉(よう) (rin'yō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鱗
うろこ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From iroko.

Noun

鱗(うろこ) • (uroko) 

1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
2. (typography) serif (on Chinese characters)

See also

• セリフ (serifu): serif (on European letters)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鱗
いろこ Jinmeiyō
irregular

Noun

鱗(いろこ) • (iroko) 

1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
2. scaled animal
3. dandruff

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
鱗
うろくず Jinmeiyō
irregular

From irokuzu.

Noun

鱗(うろくず) • (urokuzu) ^{←うろくづ (urokudu)?}

1. scale of a fish
2. fish

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
鱗
いろくず Jinmeiyō
irregular

Noun

鱗(いろくず) • (irokuzu) ^{←いろくづ (irokudu)?}

1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
2. scaled animal

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
鱗
こけ Jinmeiyō
irregular

Noun

鱗(こけ) • (koke) 

1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)

Etymology 6

Kanji in this term
鱗
こけら Jinmeiyō
irregular

Noun

鱗(こけら) • (kokera) 

1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)

Etymology 7

Kanji in this term
鱗
りん Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 鱗／鳞 (lin).

Counter

鱗(りん) • (-rin) 

1. counter for scales of a fish
2. counter for fish

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Korean

Hanja

鱗 (eumhun 비늘 린 (bineul rin), word-initial (South Korea) 비늘 인 (bineul in))

1. scale (of fish or reptiles)

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Kunigami

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 鱗 (uroko).

Kanji

鱗

• Kun: いりちー (irichī)

Noun

鱗 (hiragana いりちー, romaji irichī)

1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
2. dandruff

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Okinawan

Kanji

鱗

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. scale

Readings

• Kun: いりち (irichi, 鱗)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 鱗 (uroko).

Noun

鱗(いりち) (irichi) 

1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
2. dandruff

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Pai-lang

Etymology

From . Related to Burmese ရှည် (hrany, “long”), Tibetan རིང (ring, “long”).

Adjective

1. long

References

• Hill, Nathan W. (2017) “Songs of the Bailang: A New Transcription with Etymological Commentary”, in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient‎^[1], volume 103, pages 386—429

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Vietnamese

Han character

鱗: Hán Nôm readings: lân

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