Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Imjagpul's additions to Matthews
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陵 líng knoll
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Don't dawdle! We have to turn this mound into a knoll! The fairy laughts and say he can linger on (as it is the same). |
Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
| 陵 |
Ling is composed of 阜 fou a mound as radical, with a common phonetic. It means a tumulus, especially of a tomb. Chin-ling is here an old name for Nanking, the southern capital, which had also been the capital under the Eastern Chin dynasty. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
陵
líng
mound/tomb/hill/mountain
Phrases ending with the given character
中zhōng
山shān
陵líng
Dr Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum in Nanjing
明míng
孝xiào
陵líng
Ming tombs in Nanjing, tomb of founding Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], a World Heritage site
泰tài
姬jī
陵líng
Taj Mahal (mausoleum in India)
炎yán
帝dì
陵líng
Fiery Emperor's tomb in Yanling county, Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan
烈liè
士shì
陵líng
memorial mound/heroes' memorial
舜shùn
帝dì
陵líng
several tombs of legendary Emperor Shun, one in Ningyuan county 寧遠縣|宁远县 in southwest Hunan, another Yuncheng prefecture 運城|运城 Shanxi
闯闖chuǎng
王王wáng
陵陵líng
mausoleum to late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (who styled himself Chuang Wang): one in Jiugongshan 九宫山 nature reserve, Tongshan county, Xianning prefecture, Hubei, and another in Shimen 石门, Changde 常德, Hunan, built starting in 1980