Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- líng
English
- tinkling of jade
- (onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲瓏|玲珑)
- tinkling of gem-pendants
- a character commonly used in female names
粵語
- 女性人名常用字，本義係玉嘅聲音
As a component in
Words containing 玲
- 玲瓏ling4 lung4
(onom.) clink of jewels
- 啤玲be1 ling2
bearing
- 小巧玲瓏siu2 haau2 ling4 lung4
(idiom) dainty; delicate; exquisite
- 玎玲ding1 ling4
(onom.) ding-a-ling
- 馬玲maa5 ling4
- 美玲mei5 ling4
Meiling (female name)
- 丁玲ding1 ling4
Ding Ling (1904–1986), Chinese novelist, author of the novel "The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River" 太陽照在桑乾河上|太阳照在桑干河上[Tai4 yang2 Zhao4 zai4 Sang1 gan1 He2 shang4], persecuted in the 1950s as "anti-Party"
- 張愛玲zoeng1 oi3 ling4
Eileen Chang (1920-1995), famous Chinese-American novelist
- 林志玲lam4 zi3 ling4
Lin Chi-ling (1974-), Taiwanese model and actress
- 玲玲ling4 ling4
(onom.) tinkling (e.g. of jewels)
- 玲玲ling4 ling4
(onom.) tinkling (e.g. of jewels)
- 劉嘉玲lau4 gaa1 ling4
Carina Lau, an actress in Hong Kong
- 玉玲瓏juk6 ling4 lung4
- 八面玲瓏baat3 min6 ling4 lung4
be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations)
- 玲瓏浮突ling4 lung4 fau4 dat6
one with great physique or dimensions
- 愛德玲oi3 dak1 ling4
Adeline (name)
- 鄭裕玲zeng6 jyu6 ling4
Carol "Dodo" Cheng Yu-Ling (1957-), Hong Kong actress and TV host
- 阮玲玉jyun2 ling4 juk6
Ruan Linyu, a Chinese early actress, 1910.4.26—1935.3.8
- 梵婀玲faan6 o2 ling4
(loanword) (archaic) violin
- 福緣玲瓏fuk1 jyun4 ling4 lung4
- 玲瓏浮凸ling4 lung4 fau4 dat6
- 玲瓏剔透ling4 lung4 tik1 tau3
exquisitely made