líng
spirit
Phonosemantic compound. 巫 represents the meaning and 霝 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤeŋ | leng | líng | supernatural |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 47.1088% of movies
716th most common character in movies
734th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 24 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9748 |
Shuowen | “,靈巫,以玉事神。从玉,霝聲。靈,或从巫。” |
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