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Translingual

Han character

(radical 181 +5, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人戈一月金 (OIMBC), four-corner 81386, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1402, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43423
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1919, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4365, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9818

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
*riːn, *reːŋ
*riːŋ, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
魿 *ɡriŋ, *reːŋ
*mreŋs
*raːŋʔ, *reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
*reŋ, *reːŋ
*reŋʔ
*reŋʔ
*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
*reŋʔ
*reŋs, *reːŋ
*ʔsleŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ
*reːŋ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (121)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liᴇŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/liɛŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/liæŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/liajŋX/
Li
Rong
/liɛŋX/
Wang
Li
/lĭɛŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯ɛŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lǐng
Middle
Chinese
‹ ljengX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]eŋʔ/
English neck

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 8280
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*reŋʔ/

Definitions

  1. neck
  2. collar
  3. main point
  4. to lead, to guide
  5. to get; to receive
    • /    lǐngjiǎng   to get a prize
  6. to understand
  7. Classifier for items such as clothes, mats and screens.
  8. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 領承 (りょうしょう, ryōshō)
  • 大統領 (だいとうりょう, daitōryō)

Korean

Hanja

(ryeong>yeong) (hangeul 령>, revised ryeong>yeong, McCune-Reischauer ryŏng>yŏng, Yale lyeng>yeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lĩnh, lãnh, lảnh, lỉnh, lểnh, lễnh, lính)

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