yǐng
shadow
Phonosemantic compound. 彡 represents the meaning and 景 represents the sound. The 彡 component depicts shadow lines.
Definitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qraŋʔ | 'jaengX | yǐng | shadow (n.) |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 72.3210% of movies
411th most common character in movies
390th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+5F71 |
Sources
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