陵谷

Chinese

		mound; tomb; hill mound; tomb; hill; mountain	valley
simp. and trad. (陵谷)		陵	谷

Figurative sense from the Shijing:

高岸為谷、深谷為陵。 [Classical Chinese, trad.][▼ expand/hide]

From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Gāo'àn wéi gǔ, shēngǔ wéi líng. [Pinyin]

High banks become valleys;
Deep valleys become hills.

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]əŋ C.qˤok/

(Zhengzhang): /*rɯŋ ɦkroːɡ|kloːɡ|ɡ·loːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	陵	谷
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	líng	gǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ ling ›	‹ kuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]əŋ/	/*C.qˁok/
English	mound, hill	valley
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

陵谷

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