囹

囹 U+56F9, 囹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56F9 ← 囸 [U+56F8] CJK Unified Ideographs 固 → [U+56FA]

囹 U+F9A9, 囹 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9A9 ← 令 [U+F9A8] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 寧 → [U+F9AA]

Translingual

Traditional	囹
Simplified	囹
Japanese	囹
Korean	囹

Han character

囹 (Kangxi radical 31, 囗+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 田人戈戈 (WOII), four-corner 6030₇, composition ⿴囗令)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 218, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4744
• Dae Jaweon: page 445, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 717, character 11
• Unihan data for U+56F9

• Unihan data for U+F9A9

Chinese

trad.		囹
simp. #		囹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 囹
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (令) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
令	*ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
怜	*riːn, *reːŋ
零	*riːŋ, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
魿	*ɡriŋ, *reːŋ
命	*mreŋs
冷	*raːŋʔ, *reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
跉	*reŋ, *reːŋ
嶺	*reŋʔ
領	*reŋʔ
阾	*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
柃	*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
袊	*reŋʔ
詅	*reŋs, *reːŋ
旍	*ʔsleŋ
舲	*reːŋ
齡	*reːŋ
囹	*reːŋ
鴒	*reːŋ
蛉	*reːŋ
鈴	*reːŋ
苓	*reːŋ
伶	*reːŋ
泠	*reːŋ
瓴	*reːŋ
拎	*reːŋ
刢	*reːŋ
玲	*reːŋ
聆	*reːŋ
竛	*reːŋ
軨	*reːŋ
笭	*reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
翎	*reːŋ
閝	*reːŋ
鹷	*reːŋ
昤	*reːŋ
駖	*reːŋ
彾	*reːŋ
呤	*reːŋ
狑	*reːŋ
秢	*reːŋ
岭	*reːŋ
紷	*reːŋ
砱	*reːŋ
羚	*reːŋ
姈	*reːŋ
蕶	*reːŋ
澪	*reːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *reːŋ) : semantic 囗 (“enclosure”) + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): líng (ling²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: líng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: líng
    • Wade–Giles: ling²
    • Yale: líng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ling
    • Palladius: лин (lin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ling⁴
    • Yale: lìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ling⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: leng

Rime
Character	囹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	郎丁切
Baxter	leng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/leŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/leŋ/
Wang Li	/lieŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	líng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ling4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*reːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	囹
Reading #	1/1
No.	8289
Phonetic component	令
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	靈
Old Chinese	/*reːŋ/

Definitions

囹

1. Clipping of 囹圄 (língyǔ, “prison”).

Japanese

Kanji

囹

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. prison

Readings

• Go-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りやう (ryau, historical)}
• Kan-on: れい (rei)

Compounds

• 囹(れい)圄(ぎょ), 囹(れい)圉(ぎょ) (reigyo), 囹(れい)圄(ご), 囹(れい)圉(ご) (reigo)

Korean

Hanja

囹 • (ryeong) (hangeul 령, revised ryeong, McCune–Reischauer ryŏng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

囹: Hán Nôm readings: lãnh

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References

• Nom Foundation