嶙

lín

adjective #75,195

Meanings

山谷里怪石嶙峋。

Shāngǔ lǐ guàishí línxún.

Jagged rocks rose along the river valley.

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