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英

英

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

英 (radical 140 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿中月大 (TLBK), four-corner 44530, composition ⿱艹央)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1024, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30808
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1484, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3192, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+82F1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 英

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (央) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鴦 *qaːŋ, *qaŋ
佒 *qaːŋ
咉 *qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
眏 *qaːŋ
姎 *qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
坱 *qaːŋʔ
映 *qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs
泱 *qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ
盎 *qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
駚 *qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ
軮 *qaːŋʔ
醠 *qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
央 *qaŋ
秧 *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ
殃 *qaŋ
鞅 *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
鉠 *qaŋ, *qraŋ
雵 *qaŋ
胦 *qaŋ, *qroːŋ
柍 *qaŋʔ
詇 *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs
岟 *qaŋʔ
炴 *qaŋʔ
怏 *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
紻 *qaŋʔ
英 *qraŋ
瑛 *qraŋ
霙 *qraŋ
韺 *qraŋ
媖 *qraŋ
渶 *qraŋ
鶧 *qraŋ
楧 *qraŋ
暎 *qraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qraŋ) : semantic 艹 ‎(“grass”) + phonetic 央 ‎(OC *qaŋ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 英
Mandarin Beijing /iŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /iŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /iŋ²¹/
Jinan /iŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /iŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /iŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /iŋ²¹/
Xining /iə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /iŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ĩn³¹/
Ürümqi /iŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /in⁵⁵/
Chengdu /in⁵⁵/
Guiyang /in⁵⁵/
Kunming /ĩ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /in³¹/
Hefei /in²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /iəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /iŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /in⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔin³³/
Wenzhou /j̠aŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /iʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /iɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /in³³/
Xiangtan /in³³/
Gan Nanchang /in⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /in⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /in²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jeŋ⁵³/
Nanning /jeŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jiŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /iŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /eiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /eŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /eŋ²³/
Rime
Character 英
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於驚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚiaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔiajŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiɐŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ĭɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯ɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yīng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 英
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yīng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjæng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔ<r>aŋ/
English young grass plants

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 英
Reading # 1/1
No. 14510
Phonetic
component		 央
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 霙
Old
Chinese		 /*qraŋ/

Definitions

英

  1. flower, petal
  2. outstanding
  3. fine, excellent
  4. brave
  5. hero
  6. Short for 英國／英国 (Yīngguó, “Britain”).
  7. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

英

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. English

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
英
えい
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

英 ‎(hiragana えい, romaji ei)

  1. English

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

英 • ‎(yeong) (hangeul 영, McCune-Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

英 (anh, yêng)

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