lǐng

mountain ridge

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

mountain

領 unknown component

  Unknown component

lǐng

  

neck

Evolution

嶺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嶺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lǐng

mountain ridge, mountain peak; mountain range; mountain ridge

Most common words with 嶺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

mountain range

翻山越岭

to pass over mountains ridges (idiom); fig. hardships of the journey

分水岭

dividing range

岭南

south of the five ranges

山岭

mountain ridge

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.9290% of movies

3266th most common character in movies

2214th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+5DBA

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“嶺,山道也。从山,領聲。”


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