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凌 — to approach; to rise high

to approach; to rise high; thick ice; to insult or maltreat

Pinyin
líng · Líng
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — líng, Líng — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 凌: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

凌 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 凌

Words with 凌 in the HSK syllabus: 3

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 冰激凌bīngjīlíngice creamHSK 3
  2. 凌晨língchénvery early in the morning; in the wee hoursHSK 6
  3. 盛气凌人shèngqì-língrénoverbearing; arrogant bullyHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.