凌 — kanji meaning “endure”
凌
endure, keep (rain)out, stave off, tide over, defy, slight, surpass
- Meanings
- endure, keep (rain)out, stave off, tide over, defy, slight, surpass
- On'yomi
- リョウ (ryou)
- Kun'yomi
- しの.ぐ
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- 9
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #2423 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 15
- Chinese reading
- líng — Chinese character page
Words with 凌
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 凌ぐ | しのぐ shinogu | to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain); to stave off (e.g. starvation) |
| 凌駕 | りょうが ryouga | excelling; surpassing; outdoing |
| 凌ぎ | しのぎ shinogi | (means of) enduring; tiding over; pulling through |
| 凌雲 | りょううん ryouun | skyscraping; very high; above the clouds |
| 凌ぎ場 | しのぎば shinogiba | shelter |
| 凌波性 | りょうはせい ryouhasei | seaworthiness |
| 凌霄花 | のうぜんかずら nouzenkazura | Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora) |
| 口凌ぎ | くちしのぎ kuchishinogi | living from hand to mouth |
| 当座凌ぎ | とうざしのぎ touzashinogi | makeshift; for the time being |
| 凌遅 | りょうち ryouchi | lingchi; death by a thousand cuts; slow torture by slicing off parts of the body |
| 凌霄葉蓮 | のうぜんはれん nouzenharen | nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus) |
| 凌霄 | りょうしょう ryoushou | Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora) |
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