líng
bell
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 令 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.5650% of movies
1747th most common character in movies
1969th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9234 |
Shuowen | “鈴,令丁也。从金,从令,令亦聲。” |
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