yǐng

state in today's Hubei province

Components
呈 sound component

  Sound component

chéng

  

submit

阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

place

Evolution

郢 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
郢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yǐng

state in today's Hubei province

 

Yǐng

Ying, ancient capital of Chu in Hubei, Jianling county 江陵縣|江陵县

Most common words with 郢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Ying, ancient capital of Chu 楚 in Hubei, Jianling county 江陵縣|江陵县

郢书燕说

to pile up errors

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*leŋʔ

yengX

yǐng

[place name]


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4751st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+90E2

Shuowen

“郢,故楚都。在南郡江陵北十里。从邑,呈聲。,郢或省。”


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