鳞 — Chinese character
鳞
lín
fish scales
- Pinyin
- lín
- Radical
- 195 ⿂ (Fish)
- Strokes
- 20
- Components
- 鱼 粦
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fish; meaning component 鱼; sound component 粦
- Traditional
- 鱗
Common words with 鳞
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鳞片 (鱗片) | lín piàn | scale (of fish, reptiles etc) |
| 遍体鳞伤 (遍體鱗傷) | biàn tǐ lín shāng | (idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue |
| 鱼鳞 (魚鱗) | yú lín | fish scales |
| 鳞甲 (鱗甲) | lín jiǎ | scale; plate of armor |
| 鳞翅目 (鱗翅目) | lín chì mù | Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类) |
| 鳞茎 (鱗莖) | lín jīng | (botany) bulb |
| 鳞次栉比 (鱗次櫛比) | lín cì zhì bǐ | row upon row |
| 鳞伤 (鱗傷) | lín shāng | cuts and bruises like fish scales; terribly cut up |
| 鳞状 (鱗狀) | lín zhuàng | scaly; squamous |
| 一鳞半爪 (一鱗半爪) | yī lín bàn zhǎo | lit. one scale and half a claw (idiom); fig. only odd bits and pieces |
| 毛鳞鱼 (毛鱗魚) | máo lín yú | capelin |
| 东鳞西爪 (東鱗西爪) | dōng lín xī zhǎo | lit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west; odds and ends (idiom) |
English words written with 鳞
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.