穎

See also: 頴 and 颖

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)

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

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Chinese

trad.		穎
simp.		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

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Japanese

Kanji

穎

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

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Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)
• Kan-on: えい (ei)
• Kun: ほさき (hosaki, 穎)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
穎
えい Hyōgaiji
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 穎 (MC ywengX).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

Affix

穎(えい) • (ei) 

1. tip; sharp point
2. outstanding; talented (interchangeable with 英 (ei))

Noun

穎(えい) • (ei) 

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 穎 (dĩnh, dánh, dính, nhảnh, giảnh)

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