羚

羚 U+7F9A, 羚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F9A ← 羙 [U+7F99] CJK Unified Ideographs 羛 → [U+7F9B]

羚 U+F9AF, 羚 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9AF ← 瑩 [U+F9AE] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 聆 → [U+F9B0]

Translingual

Han character

羚 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+5, 11 strokes, Cangjie input 廿手人戈戈 (TQOII), four-corner 8853₇, composition ⿰羊令)

1. species of antelope

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 951, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28463
• Dae Jaweon: page 1395, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3130, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7F9A

• Unihan data for U+F9AF

Chinese

trad.		羚
simp. #		羚
alternative forms		麢 䴫 𦏪 𦏰 𪋪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (令) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
令	*ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
怜	*riːn, *reːŋ
零	*riːŋ, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
魿	*ɡriŋ, *reːŋ
命	*mreŋs
冷	*raːŋʔ, *reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
跉	*reŋ, *reːŋ
嶺	*reŋʔ
領	*reŋʔ
阾	*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
柃	*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
袊	*reŋʔ
詅	*reŋs, *reːŋ
旍	*ʔsleŋ
舲	*reːŋ
齡	*reːŋ
囹	*reːŋ
鴒	*reːŋ
蛉	*reːŋ
鈴	*reːŋ
苓	*reːŋ
伶	*reːŋ
泠	*reːŋ
瓴	*reːŋ
拎	*reːŋ
刢	*reːŋ
玲	*reːŋ
聆	*reːŋ
竛	*reːŋ
軨	*reːŋ
笭	*reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
翎	*reːŋ
閝	*reːŋ
鹷	*reːŋ
昤	*reːŋ
駖	*reːŋ
彾	*reːŋ
呤	*reːŋ
狑	*reːŋ
秢	*reːŋ
岭	*reːŋ
紷	*reːŋ
砱	*reːŋ
羚	*reːŋ
姈	*reːŋ
蕶	*reːŋ
澪	*reːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): líng (ling²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lêng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: líng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: líng
    • Wade–Giles: ling²
    • Yale: líng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ling
    • Palladius: лин (lin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ling⁴
    • Yale: lìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ling⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng
    • Tâi-lô: lîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: leeng
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: leng

Rime
Character	羚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	郎丁切
Baxter	leng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/leŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/leŋ/
Wang Li	/lieŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	líng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ling4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*reːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	羚
Reading #	1/1
No.	8325
Phonetic component	令
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	靈
Old Chinese	/*reːŋ/

Definitions

羚

1. antelope; gazelle
2. goral; serow
3. (historical dictionaries only) lamb; young sheep

Compounds

• 侏羚 (zhūlíng)
• 劍羚 / 剑羚 (jiànlíng)
• 叉角羚 (chājiǎolíng)
• 大羚羊
• 山羚 (shānlíng)
• 扭角羚
• 斑羚 (bānlíng)
• 水羚 (shuǐlíng)
• 沙羚 (shālíng)
• 瞪羚 (dènglíng)
• 羚牛 (língniú)
• 羚羊 (língyáng)
• 羚羊掛角 / 羚羊挂角
• 藏羚
• 藏羚羊 (zànglíngyáng)
• 赤羚 (chìlíng)
• 跳羚 (tiàolíng)
• 驢羚 / 驴羚 (lǘlíng)
• 高角羚 (gāojiǎolíng)
• 鬣羚 (lièlíng)

Japanese

Kanji

羚

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. antelope
2. serow

Readings

• Go-on: りょう (ryō)
• Kan-on: れい (rei)

References

• “^▲羚”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

羚 • (ryeong>yeong) (hangeul 령>영, revised ryeong>yeong, McCune–Reischauer ryŏng>yŏng, Yale lyeng>yeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

羚: Hán Việt readings: linh

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Compounds

• 羚羊 (linh dương, “antelope”)