簾
bamboo screen, rattan blind
Readings
On'yomi
- レン
Kun'yomi
- すだれ
- す
Nanori
- みす
Meaning
簾 centers on a hanging screen or blind made from thin strips, typically bamboo or rattan, used to divide space or filter light.
Most common words using 簾
20 of 24- 暖簾のれんN1
(short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house
- 御簾みす
bamboo blind
- 簾すだれ
bamboo screen; rattan blind
- 簾れん
bamboo screen; rattan blind
- 丸簾貝まるすだれがい
embossed venus (Venus toreuma)
- 切り暖簾きりのれん
short split entrance curtain
- 御簾草みすくさ
common cattail (Typha latifolia); broadleaf cattail; common bulrush; great reedmace
- 暖簾に腕押しのれんにうでおし
not worth doing; waste of effort
- 暖簾分けのれんわけ
helping a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop
- 暖簾名のれんな
store name written on a noren
- 板簾いたすだれ
Venetian blind
- 灰簾石かいれんせき
zoisite
- 玉簾たますだれ
autumn zephyrlily (Zephyranthes candida); white rain lily
- 珠暖簾たまのれん
curtain made of strung beads
- 秋簾あきすだれ
bamboo screen still in place in autumn
- 簾コリメーターすだれコリメーター
modulation collimator
- 簾戸すど
bamboo door; door or screen made of fine bamboo strips, allowing air to pass through
- 簾貝すだれがい
Paphia euglypta (species of Venus clam)
- 紅簾石こうれんせき
piedmontite; piemontite; manganese epidote
- 紫馬簾菊むらさきばれんぎく
eastern purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea); purple coneflower
Study
Etymology
簾 combines 竹 (bamboo) with 廉, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of a screen or partition. The character reflects a bamboo-made hanging blind.
Meaning mnemonic
The bamboo top 竹 over 廉 suggests a hanging screen made of bamboo strips. Picture a bamboo curtain filtering sunlight in a doorway.
Reading mnemonic
For レン, imagine a lens-like bamboo screen that filters light: lens -> レン, and the bamboo blind acts like a soft lens.