伶
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(old) actor; actress; (meaningless bound form)
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 人 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 伶
- Common rank
- #2,720
- Unicode
- U+4F36
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
actor · Heisig RSH #2441
人 person + 令 orders
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 伶
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伶人 | (old) actor; actress | |
| 机伶 | variant of 機靈|机灵[ji1 ling5] | |
| 名伶 | famous actor or actress (Chinese opera) | |
| 伶盗龙 | velociraptor (dinosaur) | |
| 口齿伶俐 | eloquent and fluent speaker (idiom); grandiloquence; the gift of the gab | |
| 优伶 | (old) performing artist; actor; actress | |
| 伶牙俐齿 | clever and eloquent (idiom); fluent; having the gift of the gab | |
| 孤苦伶仃 | solitary and impoverished (idiom) | |
| 聪明伶俐 | (idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted | |
| 瘦骨伶仃 | (idiom) emaciated; scrawny | |
| 伶鼬 | weasel; Mustela nivalis (zoology) | |
| 瘦伶仃 | emaciated; scrawny | |
| 伶俐 | clever; witty; intelligent; deft; adroit | |
| 伶仃 | alone and helpless | |
| 伶俜 | (literary) lonely; all alone; solitary |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 令 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 令 sound part | command, decree, order; magistrate; to allow, to cause | |
| 领 | neck, collar; lead, guide | |
| 冷 | cold, cool; lonely | |
| 零 | zero; fragment, fraction | |
| 岭 | mountain ridge, mountain peak | |
| 邻 | neighbor; neighborhood | |
| 龄 | age; years | |
| 铃 | small bell | |
| 怜 | to pity, to sympathize with | |
| 玲 | the tinkling of jewelry | |
| 羚 | a species of antelope | |
| 鸰 | lark, wagtail; Motacilla species (various) | |
| 苓 | fungus, tuber; licorice | |
| 蛉 | dragonfly, sandfly; Libellulidae | |
| 呤 | purine | |
| 囹 | prison, enclosure | |
| 拎 | to lift, to haul, to take | |
| 翎 | plume, tail feathers | |
| 聆 | to hear, to listen |