Chinese Character Wiki

凌

líng

pure

Components
冫 meaning component

冫  Meaning component

bīng

  

ice

ice

夌 sound component

夌  Sound component

líng

  

to surpass

Evolution

凌 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
凌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
凌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
凌 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
凌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

凌  

líng

pure; virtuous; insult; maltreat; to approach; to rise high; thick ice; to insult or maltreat

凌  

Líng

surname Ling

Most common words with 凌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凌晨

in the wee hours

冰激凌

ice cream

凌

to approach

凌乱

messy

凌空

be high up in the sky

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]əŋ

ling

líng

transgress; attack

*p.rəŋ

ling

líng

ice


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.3040% of movies

1788th most common character in movies

1731st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+51CC

Shuowen

“，仌出也。从仌，朕聲。《詩》曰：‘納于陰。’凌，或从夌。”


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