líng
pure
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 凌
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
in the wee hours | ||
ice cream | ||
to approach | ||
messy | ||
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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