Chinese Character Wiki

螢

yíng

glow-worm

A glowing 火 insect 虫

Components
火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

冖 meaning component

冖  Meaning component

mì

  

cover

虫 meaning component

虫  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

Evolution

螢 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
螢 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

萤 (螢) 

yíng

glow-worm, luminous insect; firefly; glow-worm

Most common words with 螢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

萤火虫

firefly

萤

firefly

萤火

fairy light

萤石

fluorite CaF2

流萤

firefly

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-qʷˤeŋ

hweng

yíng

glow-worm


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.8650% of movies

3271st most common character in movies

3434th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

萤

Unicode

U+87A2


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