Dictionary › 粼

粼

lín

Character

What 粼 means

1. clear (as of water)

Example sentences

• 在一个晴朗的十月天，奈尼湖在午后阳光下波光粼粼，船夫划桨载着游客穿过这片山区度假胜地最核心的景观，草木繁茂、松林复盖的喜马拉雅山峰将其包围。
  On a clear October day, Naini Lake shimmers in the afternoon sun as boatmen row tourists across the hill resort’s prime attraction nestled amid lush, pine-clothed Himalayan peaks.

Words starting with 粼

• 粼粼lín línclear and crystalline (of water)

Words containing 粼

• 波光粼粼bō guāng lín lín(idiom) (of water) shimmering with ripples; glistening

Characters built on 粦

These share the phonetic component 粦 (), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 磷lín(chemistry) phosphorus
• 遴lín(literary) to select
• 鳞línscales (of fish, snakes etc)
• 麟línvariant of 麟
• 膦lìnphosphine
• 嶙línranges of hills
• 辚línrumbling of wheels
• 瞵línto stare at

Characters that look like 粼

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 额éforehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount
• 殿diànpalace hall
• 颗kēclassifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
• 鞍ān(bound form) saddle
• 鹑chún(bound form) quail
• 觑qùto spy; watch for

Sounds the same

Read lín, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 林(bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people)…
• 邻neighbor; adjacent; close to
• 临to face; to overlook; to arrive
• 淋to sprinkle; to drip; to pour
• 琳gem
• 鳞scales (of fish, snakes etc)
• 霖continued rain
• 磷(chemistry) phosphorus
• 遴(literary) to select
• 啉used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉
• 嶙ranges of hills
• 璘luster of gem