Chinese Character Wiki
英

yīng

flower

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 央 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

央 sound component

央  Sound component

yāng

  

beg

Evolution

英 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
英 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

英  

yīng

petal, flower, leaf; brave, a hero; England, English; hero; outstanding; excellent; (literary) flower; blossom

英  

Yīng

United Kingdom; British; England; English; abbr. for 英國|英国[Yīng​guó]

Most common words with 英
Freq.
Word
Meaning

英国

United Kingdom 聯合王國|联合王国[Lián​hé​wáng​guó]

英雄

hero

英语

English (language)

英

hero

英里

mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

瑛

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔ<r>aŋ

'jaeng

yīng

young grass plants


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 63.5752% of movies

479th most common character in movies

371st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+82F1

Shuowen

“英，艸榮而不實者。一曰黃英。从艸，央聲。”


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