凌
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to approach; to rise high; thick ice; to insult or maltreat
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 冫 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 凌
- Common rank
- #1,685
- Unicode
- U+51CC
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Formation & memory
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How 凌 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
冫 meaning “ice” + 夌 sound ()
Components 冫 夌
How to remember it
bully · Heisig RSH #2350
ice + Minuteclods
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 凌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 凌海市 | Linghai, a county-level city in Jinzhou City 錦州市|锦州市[Jin3 zhou1 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 气势凌人 | arrogant and overbearing | |
| 凌河区 | Linghe, a district of Jinzhou City 錦州市|锦州市[Jin3 zhou1 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 王心凌 | stage name of Cyndi Wang; see 王君如[Wang2 Jun1 ru2] | |
| 凌云县 | Lingyun, a county in Baise City 百色市[Bai3 se4 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 凌源市 | Lingyuan, a county-level city in Chaoyang City 朝陽市|朝阳市[Chao2 yang2 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 盛气凌人 | overbearing; arrogant bully | |
| 英飞凌 | Infineon (electronics company) | |
| 凌海 | see 凌海市[Ling2 hai3 Shi4] | |
| 凌杂米盐 | disordered and fragmentary | |
| 凌波舞 | limbo (dance) (loanword) | |
| 以强凌弱 | to use one's strength to bully the weak (idiom) | |
| 凌空 | be high up in the sky | |
| 凌河 | see 凌河區|凌河区[Ling2 he2 Qu1] | |
| 凌云 | see 凌雲縣|凌云县[Ling2 yun2 Xian4] | |
| 凌云 | (lit. and fig.) towering; lofty; high | |
| 凌蒙初 | Ling Mengchu (1580–1644), Ming dynasty short story writer and playwright | |
| 冰激凌 | ice cream | |
| 凌源 | see 凌源市[Ling2 yuan2 Shi4] | |
| 冰凌 | icicle |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夌 — compare how they read.