英

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 + phonetic 央

Han character

英 (radical 140 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿中月大 (TLBK), four-corner 4453₀, composition ⿱艹央)

1. petal, flower, leaf
2. outstanding, fine, bright
3. brave
4. a hero
5. a surname (male or female)
6. British

Derived characters

• 暎

http://www.nihongo.aikidoka.ru/image/kanji/140/ei/_a.gif

References

• KangXi: page 1024, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30808
• Dae Jaweon: page 1484, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3192, character 1
• Unihan data for U+82F1

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		英

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīng (ying¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing¹
• Min Nan (POJ): eng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: ying¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ing
    • IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jing¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: eng
    • Tâi-lô: ing
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɪŋ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (英, reconstructed)
Character (英), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 庚 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 於驚切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔɣiæŋ/	/ʔi̯ɐŋ/	/ʔiɐŋ/	/ʔɯiaŋ/	/ʔiajŋ/	/ĭɐŋ/	/ʔiaŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (英, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
英								yīng								‹ ʔjæng ›								/*ʔ<r>aŋ/								young grass plants
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
英					14510					央					陽					0					霙					/*qraŋ/

Compounds

• 英镑
• 英尺
• 英寸
• 英吨
• 英发
• 英国
• 英杰
• 英俊
• 英里
• 英灵
• 英文
• 英武
• 英雄
• 英语

Phrases

• 英雄所见略同
• 英雄无用武之地

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Japanese

Kanji

英

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. English

Readings

• Goon: よう (yō)
• Kan’on: えい (ei), え (e)
• Kun: はなぶさ (hanabusa), はな (hana), ひいでる (hiideru)

Compounds

英気 (えいき, eiki) 英語 (えいご, eigo) 英国 (えいこく, eikoku) 英和 (えいわ, eiwa)

英知 (えいち, eichi) 英智 (えいち, Eichi) 英雄 (えいゆう, eiyū) 英霊 (えいれい, eirei) 石英 (せきえい, sekiei)

英断 (えいだん, eidan) 英文 (えいぶん, eibun)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

英 (anh, yêng)

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