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

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/
Bernard
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

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

鱗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. scales
  2. scaly

Readings

Compounds

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)
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 [Daijirin] (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 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (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 used for names)

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 used for names)

  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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