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领

lǐng

neck

Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 令 represents the sound. Simplified form of 領.

Components
令 sound component

令  Sound component

lìng, líng, lǐng

  

command

页 meaning component

页  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

page

Depicts a head.

Evolution

领 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
领 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
领 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
领 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

领 (領) 

lǐng

neck; collar; lead, guide; to lead; to receive; classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc

Most common words with 领
Freq.
Word
Meaning

领导

lead

领域

domain

领

neck

领先

to lead

领袖

leader

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 51.7540% of movies

730th most common character in movies

329th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

領

Unicode

U+9886


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