夌
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Meaning: to dawdle
💡 Think of 'ling' as 'lingering' slowly, like a dawdling sloth.
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Character Story & Explanation
夌 (líng) means 'to dawdle' or 'to loiter,' depicting slow, leisurely movement. Its radical 夊 suggests walking slowly. Historically, it conveyed lingering or sauntering, often with a lazy connotation. Rare in modern Chinese, it appears in classical texts and as a phonetic component in characters like 陵 (líng, hill).
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