泠

See also: 冷

泠 U+6CE0, 泠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CE0 ← 泟 [U+6CDF] CJK Unified Ideographs 泡 → [U+6CE1]

Translingual

Traditional	泠
Simplified	泠
Japanese	泠
Korean	泠

Han character

泠 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水人戈戈 (EOII), four-corner 3813₇ or 3813₂, composition ⿰氵令)

Derived characters

• 霗, 𩆼, 𢜅, 𫪬, 𭅛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 617, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17306
• Dae Jaweon: page 1012, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1589, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6CE0

Chinese

trad.		泠
simp. #		泠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (令) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
令	*ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
怜	*riːn, *reːŋ
零	*riːŋ, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
魿	*ɡriŋ, *reːŋ
命	*mreŋs
冷	*raːŋʔ, *reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
跉	*reŋ, *reːŋ
嶺	*reŋʔ
領	*reŋʔ
阾	*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
柃	*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
袊	*reŋʔ
詅	*reŋs, *reːŋ
旍	*ʔsleŋ
舲	*reːŋ
齡	*reːŋ
囹	*reːŋ
鴒	*reːŋ
蛉	*reːŋ
鈴	*reːŋ
苓	*reːŋ
伶	*reːŋ
泠	*reːŋ
瓴	*reːŋ
拎	*reːŋ
刢	*reːŋ
玲	*reːŋ
聆	*reːŋ
竛	*reːŋ
軨	*reːŋ
笭	*reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
翎	*reːŋ
閝	*reːŋ
鹷	*reːŋ
昤	*reːŋ
駖	*reːŋ
彾	*reːŋ
呤	*reːŋ
狑	*reːŋ
秢	*reːŋ
岭	*reːŋ
紷	*reːŋ
砱	*reːŋ
羚	*reːŋ
姈	*reːŋ
蕶	*reːŋ
澪	*reːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): líng (ling²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: líng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: líng
    • Wade–Giles: ling²
    • Yale: líng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ling
    • Palladius: лин (lin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ling⁴
    • Yale: lìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ling⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: leng

Rime
Character	泠
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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	líng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ling4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*reːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	泠
Reading #	1/1
No.	8296
Phonetic component	令
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	靈
Old Chinese	/*reːŋ/

Definitions

泠

1. (literary) cool; refreshing
2. mild and comfortable
3. a surname

Compounds

• 丁泠
• 泠冽
• 泠泠 (línglíng)
• 泠然
• 泠風 / 泠风
• 清泠
• 白泠泠
• 西泠八家
• 西泠十子
• 西泠橋 / 西泠桥
• 言詞泠泠 / 言词泠泠
• 響泠泠 / 响泠泠

Japanese

Kanji

泠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. cool
2. clean

Readings

• On (unclassified): れい (rei)、りょう (ryō)、れん (ren)
• Kun: さとす (satosu)
• Nanori: きよし (kiyoshi)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

泠: Hán Nôm readings: lênh, lểnh, linh, rãnh, lềnh

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References

• Nom Foundation