岭
lǐnglíng HSK7

mountain ridge

岭 (嶺) lǐng frequency
range place name
a series of mountains or hills forming a line

秦岭是中国南北方的地理分界线。

Qín lǐng shì Zhōng​guó nán​běi​fāng de dì​lǐ fēn​jiè​xiàn.

The Qinling Mountains are the geographical divide between northern and southern China.

ridge noun
the crest or long, narrow top of a mountain

翻过这道山岭，就能看到远处的村庄。

fān​guò zhè dào shān lǐng, jiù néng kàn​dào yuǎn​chù de cūn​zhuāng.

Once you cross this ridge, you can see the village in the distance.

岭 líng
lofty noun
used in the compound 岭𫶕 líng​yíng, meaning lofty or deep

这里的山势岭巆，极其险峻。

zhè​lǐ de shān​shì lǐng​hóng, jí​qí xiǎn​jùn.

The mountains here are high and extremely steep.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,214th most common 28.1 per million
Movie subtitles
3,269th most common 2.22 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.70 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
16.0 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
嶺
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5CAD

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)