Chinese Character Wiki

嶙

lín

precipitous

Components
山 meaning component

山  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

mountain

粦 sound component

粦  Sound component

lín

  

will-o'-the wisp, phosphorus

Evolution

嶙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嶙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

嶙  

lín

precipitous; ranges of hills

Most common words with 嶙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

瘦骨嶙峋

skinny; emaciated (idiom)

嶙

ranges of hills

嶙峋

craggy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4467th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+5D99

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“嶙，嶙峋，深崖皃。从山，粦聲。”


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