líng

water-chestnut

Evolution

蔆 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
蔆 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
蔆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

líng

water-chestnut, water caltrop

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líng

variant of [líng]

Most common words with 蔆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

菱形

rhombus

Trapa natans

三菱

Mitsubishi

菱角

water caltrop or water chestnut (genus Trapa)

菱镁矿

magnesite

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2802nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+8506

Shuowen

“蔆,芰也,从艸,淩聲。楚謂之芰,秦謂之薢茩。,司馬相如說蔆从遴。”


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