yǐng
rice tassel
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 穎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to rise above others | ||
lit. new bud | ||
husk | ||
smart | ||
Michelle Kwan (1980-), former American figure skater, Olympic medalist |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷeŋʔ | ywengX | yǐng | point of an ear of grain |
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 | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7A4E |
Shuowen | “穎,禾末也。从禾,頃聲。” |
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