瓴 líng
          
              líng 
              
              noun 
              concave channels of tiling; a long-necked jar 
              Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
              
              
              
              
                Notes: (Unihan '瓴')
              
               
          
          
Contained in
- 破竹建瓴 smash bamboo, overturn water tank; irresistible force
 - 高屋建瓴 water pouring from a tall building can be collected in a bottle; a high position is strategically advantageous
 
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷七 精神訓 Chapter 7: Spirit Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 3
 - 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
 - 卷二十九 Scroll 29 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
 - 《瓦部》 Wǎ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 2
 - 卷八十四 志第六十 河渠二 Volume 84 Treatises 60: Rivers and Canals 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 2
 - 卷6 帝紀第6 武帝下 Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Wu 2 Book of Zhou 周書 — count: 1
 - 卷八十三 志第五十九 河渠一 Volume 83 Treatises 59: Rivers and Canals 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
 - 卷三十四 列傳第二十八 張緬 弟纘 綰 Volume 34: Zhang Mian; Zhang Zuan; Zhang Wan Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 1
 - 卷三百〇九 列傳第一百九十七 流賊 李自成 張獻忠 Volume 309 Biographies 197: Traitors - Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
 - 卷一百四十二 列傳第九十二: 李寶臣 王武俊 王廷湊 Volume 142 Biographies 92: Li Baochen, Wang Wujun, Wang Tingcou Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
 
Collocations
- 建瓴 (建瓴) 譬猶居高屋之上建瓴水也 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖本紀》 Annals of Gao Zu — count: 24
 - 瓴甋 (瓴甋) 瓴甋規制無所更 — History of Ming 明史, 卷一百十七 列傳第五 諸王二 Volume 117 Biographies 5: Princes 2 — count: 7
 - 瓴甓 (瓴甓) 嘗試以車輪縣瓴甓數十 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十九 魏書二十九 方技傳 Volume 29: Book of Wei 29 - Biographies of fangshis and artisans — count: 4
 - 瓴水 (瓴水) 譬猶居高屋之上建瓴水也 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖本紀》 Annals of Gao Zu — count: 3