灵 · líng
spirit, soul; spiritual world
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
spirit, soul; spiritual world
- Mandarin
- líng
- Cantonese
- ling4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 灵 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
Korean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7075
- Radical
- 火 · 86
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 灵
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
History & distinctions
Related forms
靈
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- leng · 郎丁 反切 · #939
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 7463 · leng = 梗開四平青來
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- líng
- kCantonese
- ling4
- kDefinition
- spirit, soul; spiritual world
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 86.3 58.4
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+9748
- kTGH
- 2013:900
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- líng 32190.030
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- líng 0721.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- líng 226.020
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- líng(170) ling(15)