líng

bamboo screen

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangreːŋ
reːŋʔ

說文解字

車笭也。从竹令聲。一曰笭,籯也。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica