lín

fish scales

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

fish

粦 sound component

  Sound component

lín

  

will-o'-the wisp, phosphorus

Evolution

鳞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鳞 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鳞 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鳞 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鳞 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lín

fish scales; scales (of fish)

Most common words with 鳞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

scales (of fish)

遍体鳞伤

beaten black and blue

鳞片

scale

鱼鳞

fish scales

鳞次栉比

row upon row

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2763rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CDE


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