Chinese Character Wiki
領

lǐng

neck

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 令 represents the sound.

Components
令 sound component

令  Sound component

lìng, líng, lǐng

  

command

頁 meaning component

頁  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Depicts a head.

Evolution

領 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
領 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
領 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

领 (領) 

lǐng

neck; collar; lead, guide; to lead; to receive; classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc

Most common words with 領
Freq.
Word
Meaning

领导

lead

领域

domain

领

neck

领先

to lead

领袖

leader

Component uses

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

嶺

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]eŋʔ

ljengX

lǐng

neck


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 51.7540% of movies

730th most common character in movies

329th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

领

Unicode

U+9818

Shuowen

“領，項也。从頁，令聲。”


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