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嶺

peak
Stroke count: 17

Readings

On readingレイ、リョウ
Kun readingみね
Grade 9KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. peak
    そんなことは私には高嶺の花です。That's to me like a flower on lofty heights.tatoeba
    山 三嶺、白髪山Mountains: Miune & Mt. Shiragawiki
  2. summit
  3. mountaintopRtK

Radicals and components

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Components
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Compound words

海嶺かいれい
(submarine) ridge
銀嶺ぎんれい
silvery, snow-capped mountain
高嶺たかね
high peak
山嶺さんれい
mountaintop
峻嶺しゅんれい
steep peak
函嶺かんれい
the Hakone Mountains
北嶺ほくれい
Mount Hiei
嶺颪ねおろし
wind coming from the top of a mountain
分水嶺ぶんすいれい
watershed
高嶺の花たかねのはな
prize beyond one's reach
高嶺の華たかねのはな
prize beyond one's reach
高嶺苦菜たかねにがな
Ixeris dentata var. alpicola (mountain flower in the dandelion family)
高嶺七竃たかねななかまど
Siberian mountain ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)
高嶺七竈たかねななかまど
Siberian mountain ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)

Additional Examples

李退渓：嶺南学派
Ri Taikei: Yeongnam schoolwiki

Stroke Order

17 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 嶺

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