Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

麟: Chinese unicorn, genius

Also: giraffe, bright, shining

JLPT N124 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

鹿 carries the meaning · 粦 is drawn in

24 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

リンrin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 麒麟児きりんじchild prodigy; wonder child
  • 麒麟血きりんけつdragon's blood palm (Daemonorops draco)
  • 麒麟座きりんざCamelopardalis (constellation); the Giraffe

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Prance through the forest! Imagine a magnificent stag with branching antlers peering through the trees.”
More in the 鹿 deer story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
鹿

Also built on deer (鹿)

All 2
粦

Also built on 粦

Also read リン

11 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · lín

Same form: 麟 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
麟 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
麟 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lín most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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