漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
領: jurisdiction, dominion
Also: territory, fief, reign
JLPT N214 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
頁 carries the meaning · 令 gives the sound
14 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
リョウryou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 領土りょうどdominion, territory
- 領内りょうないterritory, domains
- 領空りょうくうterritorial airspace
- 領地りょうちterritory, dominion
- 領域りょういきarea, domain, territory, field
- 領事館りょうじかんconsulate
- 領収書りょうしゅうしょreceipt
- 本領ほんりょうcharacteristic, speciality
- 要領ようりょうgist, point, knack
- 大統領だいとうりょうpresident (of a nation)
- 占領するせんりょうするoccupy, capture, possess
- 横領するおうりょうするembezzle
Also read えり, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)令 (sound) + 頁 (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 領 (rev. 93806460), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Command (令) + head (頁). Originally meant the "head" or leader who gives "commands" over a specific land—the territory they govern.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
令
Also built on orders (令)
The 令 family reads レイ (rei); 領 is read リョウ.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side領 jurisdiction · 令
vs頰 cheeks · 夾In ChineseSimplified 领 · traditional, as in Japanese · lǐng
Japan keeps the traditional form 領; mainland China simplifies it to 领.
- Simplified
- 领 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 領 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lǐng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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