líng
to surpass, to ascend
Depicts a person (人) with their feet (夂) climbing out of a pit covered with a roof.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
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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