yǐng

rice tassel

Components
匕 sound component

  Sound component

  

spoon

禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

rice

页 unknown component

  Unknown component

xié

  

page

Evolution

颖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
颖 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yǐng

rice tassel; sharp point; clever; head of grain; husk; tip; point; gifted; outstanding

Most common words with 颖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

脱颖而出

to rise above others

新颖

lit. new bud

husk

聪颖

smart

关颖珊

Michelle Kwan (1980-), former American figure skater, Olympic medalist

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.3707% of movies

2907th most common character in movies

2514th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+9896


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