Chinese Character Wiki
婴

yīng

baby

Original meaning: 

necklace

Simplified form of 嬰. Depicts a woman (女) wearing shell ornaments (賏) around her neck. 賏 also represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "necklace". The meaning of this character has shifted over time and now means "infant" or "baby".

Components
賏 sound,iconic,simplified component

賏  Sound Iconic Simplified component

yīng, yìng

  

pearls or shells strung together

Depicts two shells (贝) strung together.

女 iconic component

女  Iconic component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

Evolution

婴 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
婴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
婴 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
婴 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
婴 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

婴 (嬰) 

yīng

baby, infant; bother; infant; baby

Most common words with 婴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

婴儿

infant

婴

infant

婴幼儿

baby

女婴

female baby

男婴

male baby

Component uses

Sound component in 7 characters (0 verified)

樱 鹦 缨 嘤 瘿 璎 撄

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.7434% of movies

1624th most common character in movies

2115th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

嬰

Unicode

U+5A74


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