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鳞

lín

Character Traditional 鱗

What 鳞 means

1. scales (of fish, snakes etc)

Words starting with 鳞

• 鳞次栉比lín cì zhì bǐrow upon row
• 鳞伤lín shāngcuts and bruises like fish scales; terribly cut up
• 鳞片lín piànscale (of fish, reptiles etc)
• 鳞状lín zhuàngscaly; squamous
• 鳞甲lín jiǎscale; plate of armor
• 鳞翅lín chìscaly wing; Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶类 and moths 蛾类)
• 鳞茎lín jīng(botany) bulb
• 鳞翅目lín chì mùLepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶类 and moths 蛾类)
• 鳞状细胞癌lín zhuàng xì bāo áisquamous cell carcinoma
• 鳞喉绿啄木鸟lín hóu lǜ zhuó mù niǎo(bird species of China) streak-throated woodpecker (Picus xanthopygaeus)
• 鳞腹绿啄木鸟lín fù lǜ zhuó mù niǎo(bird species of China) scaly-bellied woodpecker (Picus squamatus)
• 鳞胸鹪鹛lín xiōng jiāo méi(bird species of China) scaly-breasted cupwing; scaly-breasted wren-babbler…

Words containing 鳞

• 鱼鳞yú línfish scales
• 遍体鳞伤biàn tǐ lín shāng(idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue
• 逆鳞nì lín(Chinese legend) a patch of scales on a dragon's neck that grow in the opposite…
• 毛鳞鱼máo lín yúcapelin
• 东鳞西爪dōng lín xī zhǎolit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west…
• 大鳞大麻哈鱼dà lín dá má hǎ yúking salmon; Chinook salmon
• 一鳞半爪yī lín bàn zhǎolit. one scale and half a claw (idiom); fig. only odd bits and pieces
• 小鳞胸鹪鹛xiǎo lín xiōng jiāo méi(bird species of China) pygmy cupwing; pygmy wren-babbler (Pnoepyga pusilla)
• 大鳞大马哈鱼dà lín dá mǎ hǎ yúsee 大鳞大麻哈鱼

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
• 麟línvariant of 麟
• 粼línclear (as of water)
• 膦lìnphosphine
• 嶙línranges of hills
• 辚línrumbling of wheels
• 瞵línto stare at

Characters that look like 鳞

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

• 耀yàobrilliant; glorious
• 躏lìnused in 蹂躏
• 鳕xuěcodfish; Gadus macrocephalus
• 鳗mán(bound form) eel (Anguilla japonica)
• 鳟zūntrout; barbel; Taiwan pr. zùn
• 蹿cuānto leap up; (colloquial) to gush out; to spurt out

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
• 霖continued rain
• 磷(chemistry) phosphorus
• 遴(literary) to select
• 粼clear (as of water)
• 啉used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉
• 嶙ranges of hills
• 璘luster of gem