齡

See also 齢, and 龄

Translingual

shinjitai	齢
simplified	龄
traditional	齡

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 齒 (“tooth”) + phonetic 令 – tooth being associated with age, as in long in the tooth (“old”) and don't look a gift horse in the mouth (“(to check teeth for age)”).

Han character

齡 (radical 211 齒+5, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜山人戈戈 (YUOII), four-corner 2873₇)

1. age
2. years

Descendants

• 齢 龄

References

• KangXi: page 1533, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48632
• Dae Jaweon: page 2071, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4791, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9F61

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Cantonese

Hanzi

齡 (simplified 龄, Yale ling4)

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Japanese

Kanji

齡

Readings

• On: れい (rei)
• Kun: よわい (yowai)

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Korean

Hanja

齡 (hangeul 령>영, revised ryeong>yeong, McCune-Reischauer ryŏng>yŏng, Yale lyeng>yeng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

齡 (simplified 龄, pinyin líng (ling2), Wade-Giles ling²)

1. age
2. duration

Compounds

• 年龄

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Vietnamese

Han character

齡 (linh, lênh)