棱 (léng): square beam
棱 (léng) is a Chinese character meaning “square beam.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 木 (semantic) and 夌 (phonetic). It ranks #2690 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 棱 wood. Its radical form 木 (tree) appears in many related characters such as 本 (běn, (bound form) root), 机 (jī, machine, opportunity), 条 (tiáo, strip).
Definitions
- square beam
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棱角 | léng jiǎo | edge and corner |
| 模棱两可 | mó léng liǎng kě | equivocal |
| 棱镜 | léng jìng | (optics) prism |
| 三棱镜 | sān léng jìng | (triangular) prism |
| 有棱有角 | yǒu léng yǒu jiǎo | (of a shape) sharp and clearcut |
| 斯摩棱斯克 | sī mó léng sī kè | Smolensk (Russian city) |
| 花不棱登 | huā bu lēng dēng | gaudy |
| 三棱草 | sān léng cǎo | sedge herb (Cyperus rotundus) |
| 五棱镜 | wǔ léng jìng | pentaprism |
| 棱台 | léng tái | prism |
| 穆棱市 | mù líng shì | Muling, a county-level city in Mudanjiang City 牡丹江市[Mu3 dan1 jiang1 Shi4], Heilongjiang |
| 模棱 | mó léng | ambiguous |
| 丹棱县 | dān léng xiàn | Danleng County in Meishan 眉山市[Mei2 shan1 Shi4], Sichuan |
| 刺棱 | cī lēng | (onom.) sound of quick movement |
| 横棱纹 | héng léng wén | crosswise pattern |
棱 appears in 24 compound words: 21 as the first character, 29 as the last, and 50 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 棱 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (4)
Example Sentences
工人们正在砍伐病棱，防止虫害蔓延。
gōng rén men zhēng zài kǎn fá bìng lēng , fáng zhǐ chóng hài mán yán .
Workers are cutting down diseased stalks to prevent the spread of pests.
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. . . i L B jí sù 1 5 8 gōng lǐ de tái wān duì yí zhū ! zhāng hóng léng 3 jú biāo 3 K xiě shēng yá shǒu jiàn lǐ chéng bēi
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山无棱，天地合，我就跟你走。
Shān wú léng, tiāndì hé, wǒ jiù gēn nǐ zǒu.
I'll go with you when pigs fly.
Character Family
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