lǐng
neck
Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 令 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]eŋʔ | ljengX | lǐng | neck |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 51.7540% of movies
730th most common character in movies
329th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9818 |
Shuowen | “領,項也。从頁,令聲。” |
Sources
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