líng

age

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
齒 meaning component

  Meaning component

chǐ

  

teeth

令 sound component

  Sound component

lìnglínglǐng

  

command

Evolution

齡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
齡 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
齡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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líng

age; years; length of experience, membership etc

Most common words with 齡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

年龄

(a person's) age

保龄球

bowling ball

age

高龄

elderly

同龄

of the same age

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.4893% of movies

1658th most common character in movies

1510th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+9F61

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“齡,年也。从齒,令聲。”


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