Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Grain (hé) Character: ling Kangxi strokes: 10 Page 851, Entry 26 According to the Extensive Rhyme (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced ling. Grain beginning to ripen is called ling. Also, according to the Jade Compendium (Yupian), it means year. According to the Supplement to the Dictionary (Zihuibu), in the Han dynasty, it was used the same as the character for age (ling).