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

4 strokes
Radical:
slice
Parts:
one-sided, leaf, sheet, right-side kata radical (no. 91)
Kun:
かた-かた
On:
ヘン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1076 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 片 【ヘン】 counter for scraps, fragments, petals, etc.
  • 片時 【カタトキ】 a (single) moment, an instant
  • 紙片 【シヘン】 piece (scrap, bit, strip) of paper
  • 砕片 【サイヘン】 debris

Kun reading compounds

  • 片 【かた】 one (of a pair), incomplete, imperfect, fragmentary, few, little, off-centre, remote, side, problem, question, matters
  • 片側 【かたがわ】 one side

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pian4, pian1
Korean:
pyeon

Spanish

  • una parte de un total de dos
  • trozo
  • incompleto
  • pedazo
  • imperfecto

Portuguese

  • unilateral
  • folha de papel
  • folha (árvore)

French

  • simple face
  • feuille
  • radical côté droit (no. 91)
980 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
969 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
905 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2842 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
937 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
724 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
82 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1045 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1088 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1143 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1287 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4272 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2158 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2910 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1220 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19813 Morohashi
3461 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3525 New Nelson (John Haig)
1212 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1297 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
833 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
2j2.5 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
3-3-1 SKIP code
2202.7 Four corner code
1-42-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7247 Unicode hex code