齡

See also: 齢 and 龄
齡 U+9F61, 齡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F61
← 齠
[U+9F60]
CJK Unified Ideographs 齢 →
[U+9F62]

Translingual

Traditional 齡
Shinjitai 齢
Simplified 龄

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • 𭌿

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. 齡
simp. 龄
2nd round simp. 令

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 齡
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 齒 (“tooth”) + phonetic 令 (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 齡
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/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
líng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ling4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 齡
Reading # 1/1
No. 8288
Phonetic
component
令
Rime
group
耕
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
靈
Old
Chinese
/*reːŋ/

Definitions

齡

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

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

齢

Kyūjitai

齡

Kanji

齡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 齢)

  1. age

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

齡 (linh, lênh)

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