凌

See also: 淩

Translingual

Han character

凌 (radical 15 冫+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈一土金水 (IMGCE), four-corner 3414₇, composition ⿰冫夌)

1. ice
2. pure
3. virtuous
4. insult
5. maltreat

Derived characters

• 蓤

References

• KangXi: page 132, character 45
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1669
• Dae Jaweon: page 297, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 298, character 3
• Unihan data for U+51CC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		凌

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): líng (ling²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: líng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ling²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ling
    • IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ling⁴
    • Yale: lìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /lɨŋ/▼

Rime
Character	凌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力膺切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/lɨŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/lieŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/liŋ/
Li Rong	/liəŋ/
Wang Li	/lĭəŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯əŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	líng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[r]əŋ/, /*p.rəŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*rɯŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	凌	凌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	líng	líng
Middle Chinese	‹ ling ›	‹ ling ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]əŋ/	/*p.rəŋ/
English	transgress; attack	ice
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	凌
Reading #	1/1
No.	8244
Phonetic component	夌
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	陵
Old Chinese	/*rɯŋ/

Definitions

凌

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Kanji

凌

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: りょう (ryō)
• Kun: しのぐ (shinogu)

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Korean

Hanja

凌 • ‎(reung) (hangeul 릉, revised reung, McCune-Reischauer rŭng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

凌 (lăng, lăn, lâng, lừng, rưng, dưng)

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