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Mythic Mandarin

灵魂 (líng hún): meaning and stroke order

灵魂 (líng hún) means soul, spirit.

灵魂

Simplified
灵魂
Traditional
靈魂
Pinyin
líng hún

Stroke order of 灵魂

灵

  • líng quick; alert
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 靈

Stroke by stroke

魂

  • hún old variant of 魂[hun2]
  • hún soul; spirit; immortal soul (that can be detached from the body)
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 䰟

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 灵魂

  1. líng hún Traditional 靈魂
    • soul
    • spirit

Radicals of the characters

灵
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 7 strokes · 𫜹 on top, 火 below
魂
Radical 鬼 (Kangxi radical 194) · 14 strokes · 云 on the left, 鬼 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

灵魂 in our stories

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  • 她的灵魂化作了精卫鸟。从那天起，她每天从西山衔来一根树枝或一块小石头，飞到东海上，把它扔进海里。

    tā de línghún huàzuò le Jīngwèi niǎo cóng nà tiān qǐ tā měitiān cóng xīshān xián lái yì gēn shùzhī huò yí kuài xiǎo shítou fēi dào Dōng Hǎi shàng bǎ tā rēng jìn hǎi lǐ

    Her soul became the Jingwei bird. From that day on, every day she carried a twig or a pebble in her beak from the western hills, flew over the Eastern Sea and dropped it into the water.

    From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 灵魂

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).