夌
líng

to surpass, to ascend

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Depicts a person (人) with their feet (夂) climbing out of a pit covered with a roof.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component

Depicts a pit covered with a roof.

人
人 Iconic component
夂
夂 Iconic component

夂 is a component form of 止.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartling[r]əŋ mound, hill

說文解字

《說文》：“夌，越也。从夂，从；，高也。一曰夌屖也。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)