líng
lonely
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 令 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 伶
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
clever | ||
clever | ||
clever and quick-witted | ||
having the gift of the gab | ||
solitary and impoverished (idiom) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3775% of movies
2977th most common character in movies
2906th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+4F36 |
Shuowen | “伶，弄也。从人，令聲。益州有建伶縣。” |
Sources
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