鱗

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See also: 鳞
鱗 U+9C57, 鱗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9C57
← 鱖
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鱘 →
鱗 U+F9F2, 鱗
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9F2
← 隣
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 麟 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1478, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46502
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2010, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4715, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9C57

Bailang

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(i/u)ŋ. Related to Burmese ရှည် (hrany, “long”), Tibetan རིང (ring, “long”).

Adjective

鱗 (*riŋ)

  1. long

Alternative forms

References

  • Hill, Nathan W. (2017) “Songs of the Bailang: A New Transcription with Etymological Commentary”, in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient‎, volume 103, pages 386—429

Chinese

trad. 鱗
simp. 鳞
alternative forms 魿／⿰鱼令
䰼／⿰鱼今
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鱗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
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 / 形声, OC *rin): semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 粦 (OC *rins).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • sa̿ing - vernacular;
  • lěng - literary.
Note:
  • lân - colloquial;
  • lîn - literary.
Note:
  • lang5 - vernacular;
  • ling5 - literary.
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
Baxter lin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lin/
Li
Rong 		/liĕn/
Wang
Li 		/lĭĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鱗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lín
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.r/
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. * 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/

Definitions

鱗

  1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
  2. scaly
  3. fish (and other scaly animals)
  4. a surname

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 魚鱗 (“fish scale”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 魚鱗
Northeastern Mandarin Harbin 魚鱗
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 魚鱗, 鱗
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 魚鱗
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 魚鱗
Xi'an 魚鱗
Xining 魚鱗甲
Xuzhou 魚鱗, 鱗
Pizhou 魚鱗
Lianyungang (Ganyu) 魚鱗
Donghai 魚鱗, 鱗
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 魚鱗, 魚甲
Lanzhou 魚鱗
Ürümqi 魚鱗
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 魚甲, 魚鱗
Wuhan 魚鱗, 鱗
Guiyang 魚鱗
Liuzhou 魚鱗
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 魚鱗
Yangzhou 魚厴子
Baoying 魚厴子
Taizhou 鱗, 魚鱗
Zhenjiang 魚鱗
Lianyungang 魚鱗
Huai'an (Huaiyin) 魚鱗
Xuyi 魚鱗
Nantong 魚鱗
Rugao 魚鱗
Yancheng 魚鱗
Funing 魚鱗
Sihong 魚鱗
Cantonese Hong Kong 魚鱗
Dongguan 魚鱗
Gan Nanchang 魚鱗
Lichuan 魚鱗
Pingxiang 魚鱗
Hakka Meixian 魚鱗
Yudu 魚鱗
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 魚鱗
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 魚鱗
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 魚鱗
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 魚鱗
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 魚鱗
Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping) 魚鱗
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 魚鱗
Huizhou Jixi 魚厴, 魚鱗甲
Jin Taiyuan 魚鱗
Xinzhou 魚鱗甲
Northern Min Jian'ou 魚鱗
Eastern Min Fuzhou 魚鱗
Southern Min Xiamen 魚鱗
Haikou 魚鱗
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 魚鱗
Wu Shanghai 魚鱗, 魚鱗爿
Shanghai (Chongming) 魚鱗
Suzhou 魚鱗爿, 魚厴爿
Wuxi 魚鱗厴
Changshu 魚鱗
Nantong (Haimen) 魚鱗
Changzhou 魚厴
Danyang 魚厴, 厴
Nanjing (Gaochun) 魚厴
Hangzhou 魚厴兒
Ningbo 魚鱗
Wenzhou 魚鱗
Jinhua 魚厴
Xiang Loudi 魚鱗甲

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

鱗

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. scales
  2. scaly

Readings

  • Go-on: りん (rin)
  • Kan-on: りん (rin)
  • Kun: うろこ (uroko, 鱗)

Compounds

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Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鱗
うろこ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From iroko.

Pronunciation

Noun

鱗(うろこ) • (uroko) 

  1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
  2. (typography) serif (on Chinese characters)
Derived terms
Derived terms
Idioms
See also
  • セリフ (serifu): serif (on European letters)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鱗
いろこ
Jinmeiyō
irregular

Pronunciation

Noun

鱗(いろこ) • (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

Noun

鱗(うろくず) • (urokuzu) ←うろくづ (urokudu)?

  1. scale of a fish
  2. fish

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
鱗
いろくず
Jinmeiyō
irregular

Pronunciation

Noun

鱗(いろくず) • (irokuzu) ←いろくづ (irokudu)?

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

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
鱗
こけ
Jinmeiyō
irregular

Pronunciation

Noun

鱗(こけ) • (koke) 

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

Etymology 6

Kanji in this term
鱗
こけら
Jinmeiyō
irregular

Pronunciation

Noun

鱗(こけら) • (kokera) 

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

Etymology 7

Kanji in this term
鱗
りん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 鱗 / 鳞 (lin).

Pronunciation

Counter

鱗(りん) • (-rin) 

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

鱗 (eumhun 비늘 린 (bineul rin), word-initial (South Korea) 비늘 인 (bineul in))

  1. scale (of fish or reptiles)

Kunigami

Kanji

鱗

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 鱗 (uroko).

Noun

鱗(いりちー) (irichī) 

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

Okinawan

Kanji

鱗

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. scale

Readings

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 鱗 (uroko).

Noun

鱗(いりち) (irichi) 

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

Vietnamese

Han character

鱗: Hán Nôm readings: lân

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