Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Character: Ling Kangxi strokes: 16 Page 1485, Entry 08 Broad Rimes (Guangyun), Collected Rimes (Jiyun), and Dictionary of Rimes (Yunhui): Pronounced ling. Jiling is the name of a bird. Erya: Explaining Birds (Erya): Ling is known as Yongqu. Annotation: Another name is Yongqu. Commentary by Lu Ji: It is about the size of a quail. Beneath its neck are black spots resembling a string of coins. People in Duyang call it the money mother, or Yongqu. It is also written as jiling. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: The wagtail is on the plain; brothers are in urgent distress. Commentary: Ling is also written as ling.