lín
Traditional: 鱗
鳞 (lín) is a Chinese word meaning “scales (of fish, snakes etc)”.
Meanings
- 1scales (of fish, snakes etc)
Related words
遍体鳞伤(idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue鱼鳞fish scales鳞片scale (of fish, reptiles etc)鳞茎(botany) bulb一鳞半爪lit. one scale and half a claw (idiom)东鳞西爪lit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west大鳞大麻哈鱼king salmon小鳞胸鹪鹛(bird species of China) pygmy cupwing; pygmy wren-babbler (Pnoepyga pusilla)逆鳞(Chinese legend) a patch of scales on a dragon's neck that grow in the opposite direction, which when touched enrages the dragon鳞伤cuts and bruises like fish scales鳞喉绿啄木鸟(bird species of China) streak-throated woodpecker (Picus xanthopygaeus)鳞次栉比row upon row