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夌

líng

to surpass, to ascend

Depicts a person (人) with their feet (夂) climbing out of a pit covered with a roof.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a pit covered with a roof.

人 iconic component

人  Iconic component

rén

  

person

夂 iconic component

夂  Iconic component

zhǐ

  

go

夂 is a component form of 止.

Evolution

夌 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
夌 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
夌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

夌  

líng

to dawdle; the name of the father of the Emperor Yao

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

陵

Sound component in 9 characters (0 verified)

凌 陵 菱 棱 稜 绫 鯪 鲮 淩

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]əŋ

ling

líng

mound, hill


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+590C

Shuowen

“夌，越也。从夂，从；，高也。一曰夌屖也。”
Sources

陳靖《兩周古文字編注》p.281

劉志基《中國漢字文物大系》Vol. 5, p.646



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