凌 (líng) is a versatile character that appears in many compounds: it can mean 'ice' (冰凌 'icicle', 凌汛 'ice run'), 'to bully or insult' (欺凌 'to bully'), 'to soar' (凌空 'soaring in the sky'), or 'to approach' (凌晨 'just before dawn'). As a stand-alone noun, it is mostly used as a surname and in formal/compound contexts related to ice. The source row's POS is 'noun', but the character is much more common in verb and adverbial uses. Many of the English glosses correspond to different compounds rather than a single sense.