玲
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(onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲瓏|玲珑); tinkling of gem-pendants
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 玉 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 玲
- Common rank
- #2,841
- Unicode
- U+73B2
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Formation & memory
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Words with 玲
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 爱德玲 | Adeline (name) | |
| 林志玲 | Lin Chi-ling (1974-), Taiwanese model and actress | |
| 张爱玲 | Eileen Chang (1920-1995), famous Chinese-American novelist | |
| 美玲 | Meiling (female name); Zhou Meiling 周美玲[Zhou1 Mei3 ling2] (1969-), Taiwanese gay film dire… | |
| 丁玲 | Ding Ling (1904–1986), Chinese novelist, author of the novel "The Sun Shines over the Sang… | |
| 八面玲珑 | be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations) | |
| 小巧玲珑 | (idiom) dainty; delicate; exquisite | |
| 郑裕玲 | Carol "Dodo" Cheng Yu-Ling (1957-), Hong Kong actress and TV host | |
| 玲珑剔透 | exquisitely made; very clever | |
| 玲玲 | (onom.) tinkling (e.g. of jewels) | |
| 梵婀玲 | (loanword) (archaic) violin | |
| 玲珑 | (onom.) clink of jewels; exquisite; detailed and fine; clever; nimble | |
| 玎玲 | (onom.) ding-a-ling; clink of jewels |
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 | |
| 伶 | clever; lonely, solitary | |
| 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 |