陵
Meanings
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- 1.mound
- 2.tomb
- 3.hill
- 4.mountain
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Wiktionary
- 1.mound; hill
- 2.royal or imperial tomb (generally restricted to the tombs of emperors, empresses and empress dowagers, but also used as an honorific for the tomb of Sun Yat-sen, the first president of China)
- 3.to go up; to mount; to ascend
- 4.to surpass; to override
- 5.to bully and humiliate; to encroach on; to invade
- 6.to decline; to wane
- 7.to sharpen; to temper
- 8.a surname
- 9.elevated area of a terrain or water surface
- 10.back (of a vertebrate)
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *rɯŋ): semantic 阜 (“mound”) + phonetic 夌 (OC *rɯŋ, “mound; hill”). Originally written 夌. ; "mound; hill; gravemound of an emperor" ; "to mount; to transgress; to encroach upon"
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Components
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Example sentences
非洲是一個大陸, 而格陵蘭不是。
Africa is a continent; Greenland is not.
非洲是一個大陸, 而格陵蘭不是。
Africa is a continent, but Greenland isn't.
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Derived terms
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Related words
丘陵 hills炎陵 see 炎陵县[Yán líng Xiàn]江陵 see 江陵县[Jiāng líng Xiàn]谒陵 to pay homage at a mausoleum零陵 see 零陵区[Líng líng Qū]龙陵 see 龙陵县[Lóng líng Xiàn]广陵 see 广陵区[Guǎng líng Qū]茶陵 see 茶陵县[Chá líng Xiàn]陵水 Lingshui Lizu Autonomous County, Hainan南陵 see 南陵县[Nán líng Xiàn]宁陵 see 宁陵县[Níng líng Xiàn]李陵 Li Ling (-74 BC), Han dynasty general whose defeat by the Xiongnu 匈奴 in 104 BC led to a major scandal