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<WL>灵(F靈) [líng] clever; spirit; elf; 灵活 línghuó nimble, easy
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<WL>灵(F靈) [líng] soul/spirit; demon/goblin/elf/pixie; 灵巧 clever, 灵活 nimble/agile, 灵便 easy@@; (HDZ:) 微温, 温度不高; 靈; (今) (简体) 靈
 
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The full form 靈 is 霝 líng over 巫 () ‘sorceress’. 霝 is 雨 () ‘rain’ over 口口口 three raindrops. 霝 is a variant form of líng with its original meaning of ‘raindrop’; it is phonetic in 靈. At the same time 霝 ‘raindrop’ suggests the meaning of 靈 ‘spirit’, since 巫 sorceresses dance to call on the spirits to make rain.
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The simple-form character 灵 (7 strokes) is an old form (see below), re-used as the simple form of the full-form character 靈 (24 strokes).
The simple form 灵, composed of 彐 over 火 (huǒ) ‘fire’, dates back at least to the Song dynasty. It meant ‘slightly warm’; it was borrowed as a substitute for 靈, both characters being pronounced líng.
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The full-form character was formerly abbrev. 𩃏 (15 strokes), with the lower component which would eventually become the simple form 灵.
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Note: In the old abbrev. form 𩃏 (apparently with 灵 below, instead of 𡀓), the top is 雪 ‘snow’ (instead of ‘rain/drizzle/mist’), and the bottom is 火 ‘fire’; in the abbrev. form 灵, the top component is omitted, and the resulting shape 灵 was a pre-existing obsolete character; formerly 灵 líng ‘warm’, with 彐(􀠋又) ‘hand’ over 火(􁭆) ‘fire’: feel (with the hand) the warmth of the fire.
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The Shuōwén Seal form of 靈(􀃮) líng ‘(rain-dancing) witches’ combines 巫(􀴖) wū ‘witches’ (dancing), and 霝(􁿣) líng ‘rain/drizzle/mist’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 𤫊(􀃭), with 王 (玉 yù) ‘ritual jade’ below; the witches dancing in the fog/mist with ritual jades, invoke/seduce/placate the gods/spirits, to transform mist into real rain (cf. 巫).
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Compare: 靈 líng ‘(anc.) rain-dance/sacrifice (to the gods/spirits, for blessing); gods/spirits; blessing; dote; effective; power; soul/spirit; beloved/deceased; glorious; bright/wise; strange; ingenious/nimble; etc.’ (HDC).
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Compare: 雪(􁿝䨮) xuě ‘snow’.
 
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