yíng

lustre of gems

Fiery  like a gem 

Components
炏 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

flame

冖 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

cover

玉 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

jade

Evolution

瑩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瑩 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
瑩 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
瑩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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yíng

lustre of gems; bright, lustrous; luster of gems

Most common words with 瑩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

晶莹

sparkling and translucent

luster of gems

绿莹莹

green and lush

沈莹

Shen Ying of Wu, governor (268-280) of coastal province of Wu and compiler of Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer 臨海水土誌|临海水土志

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2668th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+7469

Shuowen

“瑩,玉色。从玉,熒省聲。一曰石之次玉者。《逸論語》曰:‘如玉之瑩。’”


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