菱形 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

língxíng

rhombus

líng water-chestnut

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

grass

夌 Sound component

líng to surpass, to ascend

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		rɯŋ
Unicode	liəng

Phonosemantic compound. 彡 represents the meaning and 井 represents the sound.

井 Sound component

jǐng well

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 井 than it was in ancient scripts.

彡 Meaning component

shān, xiǎn hair

Three lines depicting a shape

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	heng	[ɢ]ˤeŋ	form, shape

《說文》：“形，象形也。从彡，幵聲。”