one-hundredth; 0.3 mm; 0.1 percent; 0.0375 g
Traditional Japanese unit meaning one-hundredth of a base unit. Used for length (0.3 mm, 1/100 of a 寸), percentage (0.1%, 1/100 of a 割), and weight (0.0375 g, 1/100 of a 匁). Mostly historical or technical.
rin (monetary unit); 0.001 yen
Historical monetary unit, one-thousandth of a yen. No longer in circulation; used in historical or accounting contexts.
In old length units, 1 sun is 100 rin.
This gold weighs only about 3 rin.
In the Meiji period, 1-rin coins were issued.
割 means one-tenth (10%), whereas 厘 means one-hundredth (0.1%), so learners often confuse the scale of the two units.
Standard kanji for the unit りん. High-frequency news kanji.
Kana spelling is common in everyday contexts, especially when the kanji is not needed.
Outdated kanji form; rarely used in modern Japanese.
The kanji 厘 is used for small fractional units. The reading りん is the standard Sino-Japanese reading. The obsolete reading り is a historical variant.