铃
Tap the pinyin to hear it
(small) bell; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 金 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鈴
- Common rank
- #1,637
- Unicode
- U+94C3
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
small bell · Heisig RSH #2438
metal + 令 orders
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 铃
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 电话铃声 | (telephone) ring; ringing | |
| 金铃子 | chinaberry (Melia azedarach) | |
| 转铃儿 | erhua variant of 轉鈴|转铃[zhuan4 ling2] | |
| 回铃音 | ringback tone | |
| 红铃虫 | pink bollworm; Pectinophora gassypiella | |
| 五十铃 | Isuzu | |
| 来电答铃 | (Tw) ringback tone (heard by the originator of a telephone call) | |
| 电铃 | electric bell | |
| 车铃 | bicycle bell | |
| 风铃 | wind chimes | |
| 门铃 | doorbell | |
| 打铃 | to ring a bell | |
| 铃木 | Suzuki (Japanese surname) | |
| 解铃还须系铃人 | lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom); fig. whoever started… | |
| 转铃 | bicycle bell (with a rotating internal mechanism) | |
| 铃兰 | lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) | |
| 铃声 | ring; ringtone; bell stroke; tintinnabulation | |
| 解铃系铃 | see 解鈴還須繫鈴人|解铃还须系铃人[jie3 ling2 hai2 xu1 xi4 ling2 ren2] | |
| 马兜铃科 | Aristolochiaceae (birthwort family) | |
| 闹铃时钟 | alarm clock |
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 | |
| 怜 | to pity, to sympathize with | |
| 伶 | clever; lonely, solitary | |
| 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 |