líng
noun #25,018

Meanings

  1. 1 antelope

Examples

HSK 5
Zhèzhǒng líng de jiǎo fēicháng zhēnguì.
The horns of this antelope species are extremely valuable.
HSK 6
Língyáng zài cǎoyuán shàng bēnpǎo.
Antelopes run across the grasslands.

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