líng
noun #25,018

Meanings

  1. 1 antelope (bound form, used in compound words)

Examples

Língyáng zài cǎoyuán shàng bēnpǎo.
Antelopes run across the grasslands.
Zhèzhǒng líng de jiǎo fēicháng zhēnguì.
The horns of this antelope species are extremely valuable.

Tips

usage
is almost always used in compounds: 羚羊 (antelope), 藏羚 (Tibetan antelope / chiru), 长颈羚 (gerenuk). It rarely stands alone.

Components

radical
yáng
sheep; goat
Left sheep radical - a frontal pictograph of a horned goat's head, two horns curling outward over the snout. It indexes in the bovid family: lamb, flock, shame, beauty, fresh. A is an antelope or gazelle, biologically a horned ruminant kin to sheep - the radical does direct taxonomic work.
phonetic
lìng
command; order
Right side supplies the sound directly: lìng drifting to líng with the regular tone shift. Same phonetic powers bell, age, zero, jade-tinkling, pity, collar. itself depicts a kneeling figure receiving an order from above - purely phonetic in .

Stroke Order

líng