líng

feather

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
羽 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

feather

令 sound component

  Sound component

lìnglínglǐng

  

command

Evolution

翎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
翎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

líng

feather; plume; wing; tail feathers

Most common words with 翎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

plume

翎子

pheasant tail feathers on warriors' helmets (opera)

翎毛

feather

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3417th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+7FCE

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“翎,羽也。从羽,令聲。”


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