嶙

lín

adjective #75,195

Meanings

HSK 7-9

山谷里怪石嶙峋。

Shāngǔ lǐ guàishí línxún.

Jagged rocks rose along the river valley.

HSK 7-9

久病之后，他瘦骨嶙峋。

Jiǔ bìng zhīhòu, tā shòugǔ línxún.

After his long illness he had grown gaunt, his bones showing.

usage

嶙 appears in 嶙峋: layered jagged rock, or by extension a gaunt, bony figure as in 瘦骨嶙峋.

radical

山 shān

mountain

The mountain radical 山 sits on the left, marking 嶙 as terrain vocabulary, here rugged piled-up rock.

phonetic

粦 lín

phosphorescence

Supplies the sound lín exactly. The same phonetic drives 邻 and 鳞 in the lín sound family.

嶙 lín