龄 (líng): age, length of experience, membership etc
龄 (líng) is a Chinese character meaning “age.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 齿 (semantic) and 令 (phonetic). It ranks #1500 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 龄 age. Its radical form 齿 (tooth) appears in many related characters such as 齿 (chǐ, tooth).
Definitions
- age
- length of experience, membership etc
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 龄
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 保龄球 | bǎo líng qiú | ten-pin bowling (loanword) |
| 同龄人 | tóng líng rén | peer |
| 同龄 | tóng líng | of the same age |
| 年龄段 | nián líng duàn | age group |
| 高龄 | gāo líng | elderly |
| 妙龄 | miào líng | (of a girl) in the prime of youth |
| 大龄 | dà líng | older (than average in a group, at school, for marriage etc) |
| 学龄 | xué líng | school age |
| 低龄 | dī líng | (of a member of a specific cohort) lower than average in age |
| 芳龄 | fāng líng | age (of a young woman) |
| 老龄化 | lǎo líng huà | aging (population) |
| 工龄 | gōng líng | length of service |
| 适龄 | shì líng | of age |
| 婚龄 | hūn líng | length of married life |
| 低龄化 | dī líng huà | (of a certain group of people, e.g. recreational drug users) to become younger, on average, than before |
龄 appears in 47 compound words: 0 as the first character, 81 as the last, and 19 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 龄 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
我在字典里查到了龄字的详细解释。
wǒ zài zì diǎn lǐ chá dào le líng zì de xiáng xì xiè shì .
I looked up the detailed explanation of the character "龄" in the dictionary.
75岁影后刘晓庆踩入短剧界 演妙龄少女激吻细30岁男星 80集新作《锦绣安...
7 5 suì yǐng hòu liú xiǎo qìng cǎi rù duǎn jù jiè yǎn miào líng shǎo nǚ jī wěn xì 3 0 suì nán xīng 8 0 jí xīn zuò jǐn xiù ān . . .
75-year-old actress Liu Xiaoqing stepped into the short drama industry and played a young girl and kissed a 30-year-old actor.
...6部门联合印发《关于做好边远艰苦地区和大龄未婚官兵婚恋服务工作的意见》
. . . 6 bù mén lián gě yìn fā guān yú zuò hǎo biān yuǎn jiān kǔ dì qū hé dà líng wèi hūn guān bīng hūn liàn fú wù gōng zuò de yì jiàn
... 6 departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Marriage and Love Services in Remote and Difficult Areas and Older Unmarried Officers and Soldiers"
TikTok推AI年龄检测封锁未满13岁用户 多国收紧儿童网络...
T i k T o k tuī A I nián líng jiǎn cè fēng suǒ wèi mǎn 1 3 suì yòng hù duō guó shōu jǐn ér tóng wǎng lào . . .
TikTok pushes AI age detection to block users under the age of 13, and many countries tighten children's networks...
大型车高龄驾驶 逾时工作轻罚
dà xíng chē gāo líng jià shǐ yú shí gōng zuò qīng fá
Elderly driving of large vehicles will be punished lightly for overtime work
日本高龄评论家拒绝断舍离 杂物堆家中一招堵住女儿...
rì běn gāo líng píng lùn jiā jù jué duàn shě lí zá wù duī jiā zhōng yī zhāo dǔ zhù nǚ ér . . .
Japan's elderly critic refuses to break away from the clutter pile at home to block his daughter...
未满年龄饮酒是罪行。
Wèi mǎn niánlíng yǐnjiǔ shì zuìxíng.
Underage drinking is a crime.
汤姆与你年龄相仿。
Tāngmǔ yǔ nǐ niánlíng xiāngfǎng.
Tom is your age.
你能猜到我的年龄吗？
Nǐ néng cāi dào wǒ de niánlíng ma?
Can you guess my age?
两个孩子的年龄加起来和他们的父亲相当。
Liǎng gè háizi de niánlíng jiā qǐlai hé tāmen de fùqin xiāngdāng.
The ages of the two children put together was equivalent to that of their father.
Character Family
齿 Radical Family — Characters sharing the tooth radical
Related Characters
Frequently Asked Questions
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