伶
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.(old) actor; actress
- 2.(meaningless bound form)
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Wiktionary
- 1.court musician; performer
- 2.actor
- 3.solitary; lonely
- 4.clever
- 5.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *reːŋ): semantic 人 (“man; person”) + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs)
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Components
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Derived terms
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Related words
伶俐 clever; witty; intelligent伶俜 (literary) lonely; all alone; solitary优伶 (old) performing artist机伶 variant of 机灵[jī ling]伶人 (old) actor; actress名伶 famous actor or actress (Chinese opera)伶仃 alone and helpless伶鼬 weasel伶盗龙 velociraptor (dinosaur)瘦伶仃 emaciated; scrawny聪明伶俐 (idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted口齿伶俐 eloquent and fluent speaker (idiom); grandiloquence