Jisho

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24 strokes (also 23)
Radical:
fish
Parts:
scales (fish)
Kun:
うろここけこけら
On:
リン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2494 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鱗芽 【リンガ】 bulbil, cormel, brood bud
  • 鱗形 【ウロコガタ】 triangular pattern, scalelike pattern, imbricate pattern, imbrication, triangle emblem
  • 介鱗 【カイリン】 fish and shellfish
  • 細鱗 【サイリン】 small (fish) scale, small fish

Kun reading compounds

  • 鱗 【うろこ】 scale (of fish, snake, etc.), serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
  • 鱗形 【うろこがた】 triangular pattern, scalelike pattern, imbricate pattern, imbrication, triangle emblem
  • 三つ鱗 【みつうろこ】 mitsuuroko emblem (three triangles in a triangular pattern; Hōjō clan symbol)
  • 目からウロコ 【めからうろこ】 seeing the light, being awakened to the truth, having the scales fall from one's eyes
  • 鱗 【うろこ】 scale (of fish, snake, etc.), serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
  • 鱗板 【こけらいた】 thin shingles
  • 鱗 【うろこ】 scale (of fish, snake, etc.), serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
  • 鱗板 【こけらいた】 thin shingles

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lin2
Korean:
rin

Spanish

  • escamas (peces)

Portuguese

French

5334 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2375 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1668 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
46502 Morohashi
6923 New Nelson (John Haig)
2054 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2211 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11a13.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-13 SKIP code
1-11-12 SKIP code
2935.9 Four corner code
1-46-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9c57 Unicode hex code