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夌

Translingual

Han character

夌 (radical 35 夊+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土金竹水 (GCHE), four-corner 4040₇, composition ⿳土八夂)

to dawdle
the name of the father of Emperor Yao

Derived characters

倰, 凌, 陵, 堎, 掕, 崚, 淩, 婈, 綾 (绫), 棱, 祾, 碐, 睖, 稜, 裬, 輘, 踜, 錂 (𨱋), 𩜁, 鯪 (鲮), 𡕮, 菱, 庱

References

KangXi: page 245, character 5

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5714

Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 23

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 869, character 1

Unihan data for U+590C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		夌

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夌) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
棱	*rɯːŋ
稜	*rɯːŋ
輘	*rɯːŋ
倰	*rɯːŋ
祾	rɯːŋ, rɯŋ
踜	*rɯːŋs
凌	*rɯŋ
菱	*rɯŋ
陵	*rɯŋ
綾	*rɯŋ
鯪	*rɯŋ
淩	*rɯŋ
夌	*rɯŋ
蔆	*rɯŋ
崚	*rɯŋ
掕	*rɯŋ
𩜁	*rɯŋs
庱	r̥ʰɯŋ, r̥ʰɯŋʔ
睖	*r̥ʰɯŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rɯŋ) : phonetic 𡴆 + semantic 夊 ‎(“walk”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): líng (ling²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: líng
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ
  - Wade-Giles: ling²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ling
  - IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ling⁴
  - Yale: lìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: /lɨŋ/▼

Rime
Character	夌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力膺切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/lɨŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/lieŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/liŋ/
Li Rong	/liəŋ/
Wang Li	/lĭəŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯əŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	líng

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[r]əŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*rɯŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	夌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	líng
Middle Chinese	‹ ling ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]əŋ/
English	mound, hill
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	夌
Reading #	1/1
No.	8250
Phonetic component	夌
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	陵
Old Chinese	/*rɯŋ/
Notes	後作陵凌

Definitions

夌

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Japanese

Kanji

夌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: りょう (ryō)

Kun: しのぐ (shinogu), すたれる (sutareru)

Korean

Hanja

夌 • ‎(reung>neung) (hangeul 릉>능, revised reung>neung, McCune-Reischauer rŭng>nŭng, Yale lung>nung)

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