Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
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English
- fish scales
- scales (of fish, snakes etc)
- scales (of fishes and reptiles)
粵語
- 動物皮膚上細細塊又硬又薄嘅結構（量詞：塊）
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 鱗
- 鱗片leon4 pin2
scale (of fish, reptiles etc)
- 魚鱗jyu4 leon4
fish scales
- 遍體鱗傷pin3 tai2 leon4 soeng1
(idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue
- 鱗傷leon4 soeng1
cuts and bruises like fish scales
- 鱗甲leon4 gaap3
scale
- 鱗翅leon4 ci3
scaly wing
- 鱗爪leon4 zaau2
(literally: scales and paw); bits and fragments of something
- 鱗毛leon4 mou4
- 鱗形leon4 jing4
- 鱗狀leon4 zong6
scaly
- 逆鱗jik6 leon4
(Chinese legend) a patch of scales on a dragon's neck that grow in the opposite direction, which when touched enrages the dragon
- 鱗莖leon4 hang1
(botany) bulb
- 鱗翅目leon4 ci3 muk6
Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类)
- 一鱗半爪jat1 leon4 bun3 zaau2
lit. one scale and half a claw (idiom)
- 鱗次櫛比leon4 ci3 zit3 bei2
row upon row
- 魚鱗片jyu4 leon4 pin3
- 鱗片狀leon4 pin3 zong6
- 毛鱗魚mou4 leon4 jyu4
capelin
- 魚鱗癬jyu4 leon4 sin2
- 鱗狀細胞癌leon4 zong6 sai3 baau1 ngaam4
squamous cell carcinoma
- 小鱗胸鷦鶥siu2 leon4 hung1 ziu1 mei4
(bird species of China) pygmy cupwing; pygmy wren-babbler (Pnoepyga pusilla)
- 東鱗西爪dung1 leon4 sai1 zaau2
lit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west
- 鱗頭樹鶯leon4 tau4 syu6 ang1
- 鱗胸鷦鶥leon4 hung1 ziu1 mei4
(bird species of China) scaly-breasted cupwing; scaly-breasted wren-babbler (Pnoepyga albiventer)