Chinese symbol for “ridges”
棱
léng
Traditional: 稜
arris; edge; corrugation; ridges
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ridges is 棱 (léng), defined as: arris; edge; corrugation; ridges.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 棱.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棱镜 (稜鏡) | léng jìng | (optics) prism |
| 棱角 (稜角) | léng jiǎo | edge and corner; protrusion |
| 模棱两可 (模稜兩可) | mó léng liǎng kě | equivocal; ambiguous |
| 棱锥 (稜錐) | léng zhuī | pyramid (geometry) |
| 棱柱 (稜柱) | léng zhù | prism |
| 三棱镜 (三稜鏡) | sān léng jìng | (triangular) prism |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.