靈 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. たましい、みたま、精神。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「巫」 + 音符「霝」。「たましい」を意味する漢語{靈}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

soul, spirit

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • レイ
  • リョウ
Kun (native)
  • たま
Other languages
  • 拼音ling2
  • 한글ryeong
  • Hán-ViệtLinh

Basics

Strokes
24 strokes
Radical
雨(あめ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+9748

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱霝巫

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-8-16
Four Corner
1010.8
Spahn–Hadamitzky
8d7.2
Nelson
5072