呤 (líng): (in 呤呤) a soft murmuring or tin…

Meanings

1 (in 呤呤) a soft murmuring or tinkling sound

Characters

呤

líng

(in 呤呤) a soft murmuring or tinkling sound

Examples

小溪传来呤呤的声音。

Xiǎoxī chuánlái línglíng de shēngyīn.

A faint murmuring sound came from the stream.

古文里呤呤形容轻柔的声音。

Gǔ wén lǐ línglíng xíngróng qīngróu de shēngyīn.

In old texts 呤呤 imitates a low, gentle sound.

Tips

register

Read 呤 it appears only in the reduplicated onomatopoeia 呤呤, a literary sound-word. This reading is rare and archaic; modern Chinese prefers 叮咚 or 潺潺 for such sounds.

Components

radical

口 kǒu

mouth

The mouth radical 口 marks this as a coined transliteration glyph; in 嘌呤 it works purely to spell a chemical name.

phonetic

令 lìng

to order; command

令 supplies the sound 呤 / 呤; it carries no meaning, working only as the phonetic.

Stroke Order

呤 líng

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