Chinese Character Wiki

莹

yíng

lustre of gems

Simplified form of 瑩; fiery 火 like a gem 玉

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

冖 meaning component

冖  Meaning component

mì

  

cover

玉 meaning component

玉  Meaning component

yù

  

jade

Evolution

莹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
莹 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
莹 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

莹 (瑩) 

yíng

lustre of gems; bright, lustrous; luster of gems

Most common words with 莹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

晶莹

sparkling and translucent

莹

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

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

滢

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

滢

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2668th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

瑩

Unicode

U+83B9


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