穎

See also: 頴 and 颖

穎 U+7A4E, 穎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A4E ← 積 [U+7A4D] CJK Unified Ideographs 穏 → [U+7A4F]

Translingual

Traditional	穎
Shinjitai (extended)	頴
Simplified	颖

Han character

穎 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 心木一月金 (PDMBC), four-corner 2198₆, composition ⿰⿱匕禾頁 or ⿹頃禾)

1. rice tassel
2. sharp point
3. clever

Derived characters

• 𭌒, 𢹃, 𤃡, 𣟤, 蘔

Related characters

• 頴 (Variant form)
• 颖 (Simplified Chinese)

References

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

Chinese

trad.		穎
simp.		颖
alternative forms		頴／颖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (頃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
顈	*ɡeːnʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
傾	*kʰʷeŋ
頃	*kʰʷeŋ, *kʰʷeŋʔ
穎	*ɢʷeŋʔ
潁	*ɢʷeŋʔ
熲	*kʷeːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷeŋʔ) : semantic 禾 (“grain”) + phonetic 頃 (OC *kʰʷeŋ, *kʰʷeŋʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐng (ying³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wing⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): éng / íⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǐng
    • Wade–Giles: ying³
    • Yale: yǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiing
    • Palladius: ин (in)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wing⁶
    • Yale: wihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wing⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wing⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɪŋ²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: éng
    • Tâi-lô: íng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: eang
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: íⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: ínn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: vie
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ĩ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ĩ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: ywengX

Rime
Character	穎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	清 (122)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘頃切
Baxter	ywengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jwiᴇŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷiɛŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/iuæŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwiajŋX/
Li Rong	/iuɛŋX/
Wang Li	/jĭwɛŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wɛŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǒng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wing5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷeŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷeŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	穎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǐng
Middle Chinese	‹ ywengX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷeŋʔ/
English	point of an ear of grain
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	穎
Reading #	1/1
No.	10509
Phonetic component	頃
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	潁
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷeŋʔ/

Definitions

穎

1. ear of grain
2. tip
3. clever; gifted

   Synonym: 聰／聪 (cōng)

Compounds

• 囊中穎／囊中颖
• 新穎／新颖 (xīnyǐng)
• 暴穎／暴颖 (pok-íⁿ) (Min Nan)
• 毛穎／毛颖
• 穎悟／颖悟 (yǐngwù)
• 穎悟絕人／颖悟绝人
• 穎悟絕倫／颖悟绝伦
• 穎慧／颖慧
• 穎敏／颖敏
• 穎果／颖果 (yǐngguǒ)
• 穎異／颖异 (yǐngyì)
• 穎秀／颖秀
• 穎脫／颖脱
• 穎脫而出／颖脱而出 (yǐngtuō'érchū)
• 穎花／颖花
• 管城毛穎／管城毛颖
• 聰穎／聪颖 (cōngyǐng)
• 脫穎／脱颖
• 脫穎囊錐／脱颖囊锥
• 脫穎而出／脱颖而出 (tuōyǐng'érchū)
• 重穎／重颖
• 鋒穎／锋颖

 

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	頴
Kyūjitai	穎

Kanji

穎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 頴)

1. heads of grain
2. cleverness

Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)}
• Kan-on: えい (ei)
• Kun: かび (kabi, 穎); さき (saki, 穎); のぎ (nogi, 穎); ほさき (hosaki, 穎)
• Nanori: え (e); かい (kai)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 穎 – see the following entry.

【頴】H [kanji] Hyōgaiji kanji [kanji] Extended shinjitai form of 穎: heads of grain; cleverness Kanji reading: よう, えい, かび, さき, のぎ, ほさき, え, かい

(This term, 穎, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

穎: Hán Nôm readings: dĩnh, dánh, dính, nhảnh, giảnh

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