綾
líng

thin silk

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrɯŋ

說文解字

東齊謂布帛之細曰綾。从糸夌聲。

Sources

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

绫 líng thin silk Simplified

Components

纟
纟 Meaning component
mì silk

silk

夌
夌 Sound component
líng to surpass, to ascend

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode