囹 — Chinese character
囹
líng
prison, enclosure
- Pinyin
- líng
- Radical
- 31 ⼞ (Enclosure)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 囗 令
- Formation
- pictophonetic — enclosure; meaning component 囗; sound component 令
- Japanese
- 囹 as a kanji
Common words with 囹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 身陷囹圄 | shēn xiàn líng yǔ | thrown into prison; behind bars |
| 囹圄 | líng yǔ | (literary) prison |
| 囹圉 | líng yǔ | variant of 囹圄 (líng yǔ) |
| 幽囹 | yōu líng | to keep in confinement; to confine |
| 草满囹圄 (草滿囹圄) | cǎo mǎn líng yǔ | lit. jails overgrown with grass (idiom); fig. peaceful society |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.