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粼

lín
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 clear and sparkling (of water)

Examples

微风吹过，湖面波光粼粼。
Wēifēng chuī guò, húmiàn bōguānglínlín.
A breeze rose, and the lake shimmered with sparkling ripples.
溪水清澈，粼粼发光。
Xīshuǐ qīngchè, línlín fāguāng.
The stream water is clear and glittering.

Tips

memory
Almost always doubled in 粼粼, especially the set phrase 波光粼粼 (water glittering with light). Picture sunlight scattering off a rippling surface.

Components

phonetic
粦 lín
phosphorescent will-o'-the-wisp
Left side 粦 supplies the exact sound lín. It contains the rice element 米, under which this character is indexed by tradition even though 米 is not a separate top-level part.
semantic
巛 chuān
river; flowing stream
Right side 巛 is the old 'river' graph (a variant of 川). It supplies the water meaning — 粼 is the clear, glittering shine of flowing water.

Filed under radical 米 (mǐ) by convention. 米 is not a separate component in 粼, so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

粼 lín