líng
age
Phonosemantic compound. 齒 represents the meaning and 令 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 齡
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
(a person's) age | ||
bowling ball | ||
age | ||
elderly | ||
of the same age |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.4893% of movies
1658th most common character in movies
1510th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9F61 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“齡，年也。从齒，令聲。” |
Sources
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