瓴
líng

concave channels of tiling a long-necked jar

Components

令
令 Sound component
lìng command
瓦
瓦 Meaning component
wǎ earthenware

pottery

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangreːŋ

說文解字

瓮，似瓶也。从瓦令聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)