灵
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quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 火 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 靈
- Common rank
- #453
- Unicode
- U+7075
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
spirit · Heisig RSH #942
broom + 火 fire
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 灵
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灵机一动 | a bright idea suddenly occurs (idiom); to hit upon an inspiration; to be struck by a brain… | |
| 灵山县 | Lingshan, a county in Qinzhou City 欽州市|钦州市[Qin1 zhou1 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 心灵上 | spiritual | |
| 山青水灵 | scenic, with verdant hills and crystal-clear waters | |
| 灵石县 | Lingshi, a county in Jinzhong City 晉中市|晋中市[Jin4 zhong1 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 小灵通 | Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), mobile network system operating in China 1998-2013, bra… | |
| 灵台县 | Lingtai, a county in Pingliang City 平涼市|平凉市[Ping2 liang2 Shi4], Gansu | |
| 一灵真性 | soul; spirit | |
| 药石无灵 | (idiom) (of a sick person or disease) to be incurable | |
| 不灵 | not work; be ineffective | |
| 在天之灵 | soul and spirit of the deceased | |
| 灵山 | see 靈山縣|灵山县[Ling2 shan1 Xian4] | |
| 水灵 | (of fruit etc) fresh; (of a person etc) full of life; healthy-looking; (of eyes) moist and… | |
| 心灵 | bright; smart; quick-witted; heart; thoughts; spirit | |
| 生灵 | (literary) the people; living thing; creature | |
| 灵性 | spiritual nature; spirituality; intelligence (esp. in animals) | |
| 机灵 | alert; quick-witted; lively | |
| 灵机 | sudden inspiration; bright idea; clever trick | |
| 灵动 | to be quick-witted | |
| 灵长目 | primate order (including monkeys, hominids etc) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 彐 — compare how they read.