鱗

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

• 𡿠

• 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
• Unihan data for U+F9F2

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

鱗 (*riŋ)

1. long

• 陵 (*riŋ)

• 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rin) : semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 粦 (OC *rins).

鱗

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

• (Min Nan) “Entry #13359”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. scales
2. scaly

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

From iroko.

• (Tokyo) うろこ​ [ùrókóꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[1][2]
• (Tokyo) うろこ [ùrókó] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɾo̞ko̞]

鱗(うろこ) • (uroko) 

1. scale (of a fish, reptile, etc)
2. (typography) serif (on Chinese characters)

• セリフ (serifu): serif (on European letters)

• IPA^(key): [iɾo̞ko̞]

鱗(いろこ) • (iroko) 

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

From irokuzu.

• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɾo̞kɯ̟ᵝzɨᵝ]

鱗(うろくず) • (urokuzu) ^{←うろくづ (urokudu)?}

1. scale of a fish
2. fish

• IPA^(key): [iɾo̞kɯ̟ᵝzɨᵝ]

鱗(いろくず) • (irokuzu) ^{←いろくづ (irokudu)?}

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

• (Tokyo) こけ​ [kòkéꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ke̞]

鱗(こけ) • (koke) 

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

• (Tokyo) こけら [kòkérá] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ke̞ɾa̠]

鱗(こけら) • (kokera) 

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

From Middle Chinese 鱗／鳞 (lin).

• IPA^(key): [ɾʲĩɴ]

鱗(りん) • (-rin) 

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

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

1. scale (of fish or reptiles)

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• Kun: いりちー (irichī, 鱗)

Cognate with mainland Japanese 鱗 (uroko).

鱗(いりちー) (irichī) 

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

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. scale

• Kun: いりち (irichi, 鱗)

Cognate with mainland Japanese 鱗 (uroko).

鱗(いりち) (irichi) 

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

鱗: Hán Nôm readings: lân

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