líng
age
Phonosemantic compound. 齿 represents the meaning and 令 represents the sound. Simplified form of 齡.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 龄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
(a person's) age | ||
bowling ball | ||
age | ||
elderly | ||
of the same age |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 15.4893% of movies
1658th most common character in movies
1510th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9F84 |
Sources
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