棱
lēng
3 readings · tap one to hear it
square beam; variant of 稜|棱[leng2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 木 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 棱
- Common rank
- #2,037
- Unicode
- U+68F1
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
edge · Heisig RSH #2348
木 tree + Minuteclods
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 棱
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斯摩棱斯克 | Smolensk (Russian city) | |
| 有棱有角 | (of a shape) sharp and clearcut; (of a person) definite in his opinion | |
| 花不棱登 | gaudy; having too many jumbled colors | |
| 三棱草 | sedge herb (Cyperus rotundus) | |
| 模棱两可 | equivocal; ambiguous | |
| 三棱镜 | (triangular) prism | |
| 丹棱县 | Danling, a county in Meishan City 眉山市[Mei2 shan1 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 五棱镜 | pentaprism | |
| 棱台 | prism | |
| 棱角 | edge and corner; protrusion; sharpness (of a protrusion); craggy; ridge corner | |
| 横棱纹 | crosswise pattern | |
| 穆棱市 | Muling, a county-level city in Mudanjiang City 牡丹江市[Mu3 dan1 jiang1 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 棱镜 | (optics) prism | |
| 绥棱县 | Suiling, a county in Suihua City 綏化市|绥化市[Sui2 hua4 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 丹棱 | see 丹稜縣|丹棱县[Dan1 ling2 Xian4] | |
| 模棱 | ambiguous; undecided and unclear | |
| 刺棱 | (onom.) sound of quick movement; Taiwan pr. [ci4leng2] | |
| 瘦骨棱棱 | bony; skinny | |
| 棱柱 | prism | |
| 扑棱 | (onom.) fluttering or flapping of wings |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夌 — compare how they read.