龄
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age; length of experience, membership etc
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 齒 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 齡
- Common rank
- #1,535
- Unicode
- U+9F84
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 龄
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大龄青年 | young people in their late 20s or older who are still unmarried | |
| 老龄化 | aging (population) | |
| 同龄人 | peer; one's contemporary; person of the same age | |
| 保龄球 | ten-pin bowling (loanword); bowling ball | |
| 低龄化 | (of a certain group of people, e.g. recreational drug users) to become younger, on average… | |
| 年龄组 | age group | |
| 大龄 | older (than average in a group, at school, for marriage etc) | |
| 学龄 | school age | |
| 高龄 | elderly | |
| 工龄 | length of service (in years); years of employment | |
| 育龄期 | childbearing age | |
| 老龄 | old age; aging; aged; geriatric; the aged | |
| 年龄 | (a person's) age; CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4] | |
| 低龄犯罪 | juvenile crime; juvenile delinquency | |
| 同龄 | of the same age | |
| 乐龄 | golden years (after the age of about 60) | |
| 教龄 | years of teaching experience; teaching experience | |
| 军龄 | length of military service | |
| 月龄 | (baby's) age in months | |
| 酒龄 | age of wine (i.e. how long it has been matured) |
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 | |
| 铃 | small bell | |
| 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 |