in English

líng
age / length of experience, membership etc

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 齡, the traditional character: 龄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 齡 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 齡 Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 两个孩子的年龄加起来和他们的父亲相当。

    The ages of the two children put together was equivalent to that of their father.

  • 中国女孩子年龄大了家里都会着急的。

    When a Chinese girl gets old, her family becomes nervous.

  • 从她的年龄看来,我妈妈很年轻。

    My mother looks young for her age.

  • 你的年龄是多少?

    How old are you?

  • 你能猜到我的年龄吗?

    Can you guess my age?

  • 你还没到可以拿驾驶执照的年龄。

    You're not old enough to get a driver's license.

  • 她没到拿驾照的年龄。

    She's not old enough to get a driver's license.

  • 宇宙的年龄大约为137.5亿年。

    The age of the universe is about 13.75 billion years.

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