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鱗

鱗

See also: 鳞

Translingual

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, OC *rin) : semantic 魚 ‎(“fish”) + phonetic 粦 ‎(OC *rins).

Han character

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

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

Chinese

trad. 鱗
simp. 鳞

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鱗
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力珍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lin/
Li
Rong		 /liĕn/
Wang
Li		 /lĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lín
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鱗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lín
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.r[ə][n]/
English scale of fish or reptile

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鱗
Reading # 1/1
No. 8202
Phonetic
component		 粦
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 㷠
Old
Chinese		 /*rin/

Noun

鱗

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

References

Japanese

Kanji

鱗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鱗
うろこ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From iroko.

Pronunciation

Noun

鱗 ‎(hiragana うろこ, romaji uroko)

  1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
  2. serif (of a minchō typeface)
See also
  • セリフ ‎(serifu): serif (of a Western typeface)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鱗
いろこ
Jinmeiyō
Irregular

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • IPA(key): [iɺ̠o̞ko̞]

Noun

鱗 ‎(hiragana いろこ, romaji 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.

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • IPA(key): [ɯᵝɺ̠o̞kɯᵝzɯᵝ]

Noun

鱗 ‎(hiragana うろくず, romaji urokuzu, historical hiragana うろくづ)

  1. scale of a fish
  2. fish

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
鱗
いろくず
Jinmeiyō
Irregular

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • IPA(key): [iɺ̠o̞kɯᵝzɯᵝ]

Noun

鱗 ‎(hiragana いろくず, romaji irokuzu, historical hiragana いろくづ)

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

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
鱗
こけ
Jinmeiyō
Irregular

Pronunciation

Noun

鱗 ‎(hiragana こけ, romaji koke)

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

Etymology 6

Kanji in this term
鱗
こけら
Jinmeiyō
Irregular

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) こけら [kòkérá] (Heiban - [0])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ko̞ke̞ɾ̠a̠]

Noun

鱗 ‎(hiragana こけら, romaji kokera)

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

Etymology 7

Kanji in this term
鱗
りん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 鱗 ‎(lin).

Pronunciation

Counter

鱗 ‎(hiragana りん, romaji -rin)

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 3 4 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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Kunigami

Kanji

鱗

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 鱗 ‎(uroko).

Noun

鱗 ‎(hiragana いりちー, romaji irichī)

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

Okinawan

Kanji

鱗

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 鱗 ‎(uroko).

Noun

鱗 ‎(hiragana いりち, romaji irichi)

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

Vietnamese

Han character

鱗 (lân)

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