拎 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

līn

to haul

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 令 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

令 Sound component

lìng, líng, lǐng

command

Evolution

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

līn

to haul; to lift; to take; to carry in one's hand; Taiwan pr. [līng]

Most common words with 拎

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	拎	to lift
	拎包	handbag or shopping bag (dialect)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.1853% of movies

3358th most common character in movies

3380th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	8
Unicode	U+62CE

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