玲 (líng): (onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲瓏|玲珑), tinkling of gem-pendants
玲 (líng) is a Chinese character meaning “(onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲瓏|玲珑).” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 王 (semantic) and 令 (phonetic). It ranks #3382 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 玲 jade. Its radical form 王 (jade) appears in many related characters such as 现 (xiàn, to appear), 球 (qiú, ball used for playing games (variant of 球)), 环 (huán, ring).
Definitions
- (onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲瓏|玲珑)
- tinkling of gem-pendants
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 玲珑 | líng lóng | (onom.) clink of jewels |
| 美玲 | měi líng | Meiling (female name) |
| 八面玲珑 | bā miàn líng lóng | be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations) |
| 玲玲 | líng líng | (onom.) tinkling (e.g. of jewels) |
| 小巧玲珑phrase | xiǎo qiǎo líng lóng | (idiom) dainty |
| 张爱玲 | zhāng ài líng | Eileen Chang (1920-1995), famous Chinese-American novelist |
| 爱德玲 | ài dé líng | Adeline (name) |
| 林志玲 | lín zhì líng | Lin Chi-ling (1974-), Taiwanese model and actress |
| 丁玲 | dīng líng | Ding Ling (1904–1986), Chinese novelist, author of the novel "The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River" 太陽照在桑乾河上|太阳照在桑干河... |
| 玲珑剔透phrase | líng lóng tī tòu | exquisitely made |
| 郑裕玲 | zhèng yù líng | Carol "Dodo" Cheng Yu-Ling (1957-), Hong Kong actress and TV host |
| 梵婀玲 | fàn ē líng | (loanword) (archaic) violin |
| 玎玲 | dīng líng | (onom.) ding-a-ling |
玲 appears in 13 compound words: 23 as the first character, 62 as the last, and 15 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 玲 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
以及感谢帮我调整文章的嘉玲同学。
yǐ jí gǎn xiè bāng wǒ diào zhěng wén zhāng de jiā líng tóng xué .
And thank you to Jialing for helping me edit the article.
演员阵容还包含许亚军、保剑锋、赵文瑄、李玲玉、柯淳、陈龙、刘钧、邵峰、戴军等。
yǎn yuán zhèn róng hái bāo hán xǔ yà jūn , bǎo jiàn fēng , zhào wén 瑄 , lǐ líng yù , kē chún , chén lóng , liú jūn , shào fēng , dài jūn děng .
The cast also includes Xu Yajun, Bao Jianfeng, Zhao Wenxuan, Li Lingyu, Ke Chun, Chen Long, Liu Jun, Shao Feng, Dai Jun, and others.
在与访客们的交流中,随波逐流的玲斗内心逐渐转变。
zài yǔ fǎng kè men de jiāo liú zhōng , suí bō zhú liú de líng dǒu nèi xīn zhú jiàn zhuǎn biàn .
Through her interactions with the visitors, Lingdou—who had previously gone with the flow—began to undergo an inner transformation.
阮玲玉形象的经典化,也离不开期刊的持续建构。
ruǎn líng yù xíng xiàng de jīng diǎn huà , yě lí bù kāi qī kān de chí xù jiàn gòu .
The canonization of Ruan Lingyu’s image would not have been possible without the ongoing efforts of periodicals to shape it.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 王 (jade) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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