愣

愣 U+6123, 愣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6123 ← 愢 [U+6122] CJK Unified Ideographs 愤 → [U+6124]

Translingual

Han character

愣 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 心田中尸 (PWLS), four-corner 9602₇, composition ⿰忄𬙙 or ⿰忄⿱罒方)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 396, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10980
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2328, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6123

Chinese

simp. and trad.		愣
alternative forms		楞

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 心 + abbreviated phonetic 楞.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lèng (leng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁶, ling⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lēng / gāng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lèng
    • Wade–Giles: lêng⁴
    • Yale: lèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lenq
    • Palladius: лэн (lɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ling⁶, ling⁴
    • Yale: lihng, lìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁶, ling⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ling⁶, ling⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²²/, /lɪŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lēng
    • Tâi-lô: līng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: leng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gāng
    • Tâi-lô: gāng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gang
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɡaŋ³³/

Note: gāng - 卬, 顒 is used in the Mainland.

Definitions

愣

1. to be in a daze; to be dumbfounded

   還愣著幹什麼，走啊。 [MSC, trad.]
   还愣着干什么，走啊。 [MSC, simp.]

   Hái lèng zhe gàn shénme, zǒu a. [Pinyin]

   What are you staring at? Be off with you!

2. rash; hot-headed; hasty
3. (colloquial) wilfully; insistently; persistently

Synonyms

• (to be in a daze):

• 一怔 (yīlèng)
• 卬去 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 戇去／戆去 (Hokkien)
• 發呆／发呆 (fādāi)
• 發吽哣／发吽哣 (faat³ ngau⁶ dau⁶) (Cantonese)
• 發愣／发愣 (fālèng)
• 發懵／发懵 (fāměng)
• 發痴／发痴 (fa⁶ chr¹) (Xiang)

 

• (rash):

• 倉磅／仓磅 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 倉莽／仓莽 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 冒失 (màoshī)
• 冒昧 (màomèi) (humble, of oneself)
• 唐突 (tángtū)
• 莽夫 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 莽撞 (mǎngzhuàng)
• 蠻／蛮 (mán) (literary, or in compounds)
• 魯莽／鲁莽 (lǔmǎng)

 

• (wilfully): 偏偏 (piānpiān), (Xiang) 偏生

Compounds

• 一愣
• 二不愣
• 二愣子 (èrlèngzi)
• 愣住 (lèngzhù)
• 愣兒／愣儿
• 愣怔
• 愣愣瞌瞌
• 愣眼巴睜／愣眼巴睁
• 愣神兒／愣神儿
• 愣蔥／愣葱
• 愣話／愣话
• 愣頭兒青／愣头儿青
• 愣頭愣腦／愣头愣脑 (lèngtóulèngnǎo)
• 愣頭磕腦／愣头磕脑
• 打愣

 

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lēng (leng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: leng
    • Wade–Giles: lêng¹
    • Yale: lēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lheng
    • Palladius: лэн (lɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: leng¹
    • Yale: lēng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: leng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: léng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɛːŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

愣

1. Only used in 愣兒／愣儿.

Vietnamese

Han character

愣: Hán Nôm readings: lăng

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