穎

See also 頴, and 颖

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 禾 (“grain”) + phonetic 頃

Han character

穎 (radical 115 禾+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 心木一月金 (PDMBC), four-corner 2198₆)

1. rice tassel
2. sharp point
3. clever

References

• KangXi: page 859, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25267
• Dae Jaweon: page 1286, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4376, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7A4E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

穎 (simplified 颖, Yale wing6)

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Japanese

Kanji

穎

Readings

• On: えい (ei)
• Kun: ほさき (hosaki)

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Korean

Hanja

穎 (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune-Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

穎 (simplified 颖, pinyin yǐng (ying3), Wade-Giles ying³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

穎 (dĩnh, dánh, dính, nhảnh, giảnh)