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lín
fish scales
🔤 Pictophonetic: 鱼 (fish) provides meaning, 粦 provides pronunciation
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Words Using 鳞 (21)

lín
scales (of fish)
鳞伤
línshāng
cuts and bruises like fish scales / terribly cut up
鱼鳞
yúlín
fish scales
大鳞大麻哈鱼
dàlíndámáhǎyú
king salmon / Chinook salmon
遍体鳞伤
biàntǐlínshāng
covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue / be a mass of bruises
东鳞西爪
dōnglínxīzhǎo
lit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west / odds and ends (idiom)
小鳞胸鹪鹛
xiǎolínxiōngjiāoméi
(Chinese bird species) pygmy wren-babbler (Pnoepyga pusilla)
大鳞大马哈鱼
dàlíndámǎhǎyú
see [[大鱗大麻哈魚|大鳞大麻哈鱼<dàlíndámáhǎyú>]]
鳞喉绿啄木鸟
línhóulǚzhuómùniǎo
(Chinese bird species) streak-throated woodpecker (Picus xanthopygaeus)
一鳞半爪
yīlínbànzhuǎ
lit. one scale and half a claw (idiom); only odd bits and pieces
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