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伶	U+4F36, 伶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F36

Translingual

Stroke order
Chinese (simplified) Japanese, Korean

Han character

伶Category:Translingual lemmas#人05伶 Category:Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#人05伶 Category:Translingual symbols#人05伶 Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#人05伶 Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#人05伶 Category:Pages with entries#伶 Category:Pages with 5 entries#伶 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, Cangjie input 人人戈戈 (OOII), four-corner 2823₇, composition ⿰亻令)Category:Han script characters#人05伶

Derived characters

𠴒, 𦰐, 𬍦

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 97, character 3
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 478
Dae Jaweon: page 205, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 137, character 2
Unihan data for U+4F36

Chinese

trad.		伶
simp. ^#		伶
alternative forms		刢

Chinese Wikipedia has an article on:

伶

Wikipedia ^zh

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 伶
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Small seal script s05815
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *reːŋ)Category:Han phono-semantic compounds#人05: semantic 人 (“man; person”) + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): líng (ling²Category:Mandarin links with redundant target parameters#伶)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): làng
Eastern Min (BUC): lìng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): léng / lêng

(Teochew, Peng'im): lêng⁵
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁶lin / ²lin
- (Jinhua): ²lin
Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): lin²

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/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: làng
  - Hakka Romanization System: lang^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: lang²
  - Sinological IPA: /laŋ¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: lìng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃iŋ⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: léng
  - Tâi-lô: líng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: leang
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng
  - Tâi-lô: lîng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: leeng
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lêng⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /leŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶lin
  - MiniDict: lin^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lin
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lin²³/
- (Northern: Jiading, Songjiang, Chongming, Suzhou, Changzhou, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan)
  - Wugniu: ²lin
  - MiniDict: lin^平
  - Sinological IPA (Jiading): /liŋ³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /liŋ³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Chongming): /ɦlin²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /lin²²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Changzhou): /liŋ¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /lin³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /lin²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /liŋ²³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /liŋ³¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhoushan): /liŋ²²/
- (Jinhua)
  - Wugniu: ²lin
  - Sinological IPA (Jinhua): /liŋ³¹³/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: lin²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin¹³/

Middle Chinese: leng

Rime
Character	伶
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