鱗

Meaning

鱗 centers on the overlapping protective plates covering fish and some reptiles: scales. The meaning is concrete and specific to fish scales.

• 鱗うろこ

  scale (of fish, snake, etc.)

• 逆鱗げきりん

  one's superior's anger

• 片鱗へんりん

  part; portion; glimpse; bit

• 鱗粉りんぷん

  scale; wing scale

• 三つ鱗みつうろこ

  mitsuuroko emblem (three triangles in a triangular pattern; Hōjō clan symbol)

• 介鱗かいりん

  fish and shellfish

• 偽鱗茎ぎりんけい

  pseudobulb

• 円鱗えんりん

  cycloid scale

• 日本鱗翅学会にっぽんりんしがっかい

  Lepidopterological Society of Japan; LSJ

• 有鱗目ゆうりんもく

  Squamata; order of scaled reptiles

• 有鱗類ゆうりんるい

  squamates

• 楯鱗じゅんりん

  placoid scale

• 櫛鱗しつりん

  ctenoid scale

• 目から鱗が落ちるめからうろこがおちる

  to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes

• 目から鱗の落ちるめからうろこのおちる

  revelatory

• 硬鱗こうりん

  ganoid scale

• 細鱗さいりん

  small (fish) scale

• 芽鱗がりん

  bud scale (scaly leaf protecting a bud)

• 逆鱗に触れるげきりんにふれる

  to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one

• 銀鱗ぎんりん

  silvery scale; fish

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