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U+9F61, 齡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F61

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

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

Derived characters

Descendants

References

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

Chinese

trad.
simp.
2nd round simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *reːŋ) : semantic (tooth) + phonetic (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs) – tooth being associated with age. Compare English long in the tooth (old) and don't look a gift horse in the mouth ((to check teeth for age)).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter leng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/leŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/leŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɛjŋ/
Li
Rong
/leŋ/
Wang
Li
/lieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
líng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ling4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 8288
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*reːŋ/

Definitions

  1. age
  2. length of time; duration
  3. (biology) instar

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. age

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(linh, lênh)