líng
hill
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 夌 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]əŋ | ling | líng | mound, hill |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.1373% of movies
3155th most common character in movies
1965th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+9675 |
Shuowen | “陵，大也。从，夌聲。” |
Sources
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