Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

陵: mausoleum, imperial tomb

Also: mound, hill

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻖ carries the meaning · 夌 gives the sound

11 strokes
  • Bronze · Warring States
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

リョウryou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 丘陵きゅうりょうhill; hillock
  • 陵墓りょうぼimperial tomb; imperial mausoleum

みささぎmisasagi · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 陵みささぎimperial mausoleum; Emperor's tomb

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
More in the 阝 hill story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
⻖

Also built on hill (⻖)

All 29
夌

Also built on 夌

Also read リョウ

29 kanji share this on'yomiAll 29

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
陵 mausoleum · ⻖
vs崚 mountains towering in a row · 山
陵 has ⻖ where 崚 has 山.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · líng

Same form: 陵 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
陵 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
陵 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin líng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

One click tells us. No sign-up.