英
hero; outstanding; excellent; (literary) flower; blossom
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #469 U+82F1
How 英 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 (semantic, “flower”) + 央 (phonetic, yāng)
How to remember it
England · Heisig RSH #1323
flower + 央 center
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 央
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 央 (yāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 央 sound component | yāng | central; to beg; to run out |
| 映 | yìng | to project; to reflect; to shine |
| 秧 | yāng | shoots, sprouts; young rice plants |
| 盎 | àng | pot, cup, bowl; abundant |
| 殃 | yāng | misfortune, disaster, calamity |
| 鞅 | yāng | the strap over a horse's neck |
| 鸯 | yāng | female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) |
| 泱 | yāng | great, expansive; agitated |
| 怏 | yàng | discontented, dispirited, sad |
Words containing 英
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大英县 | Dà yīng Xiàn | Daying, a county in Suining City 遂寧市|遂宁市[Sui4 ning2 Shi4], Sichuan |
| 英国人 | Yīng guó rén | British person; the British |
| 英山县 | Yīng shān Xiàn | Yingshan, a county in Huanggang City 黃岡市|黄冈市[Huang2 gang1 Shi4], Hubei |
| 大英联合王国 | Dà yīng Lián hé Wáng guó | United Kingdom |
| 英德市 | Yīng dé Shì | Yingde, a county-level city in Qingyuan City 清遠市|清远市[Qing1 yuan3 Shi4], Guangdong |
| 英特尔 | Yīng tè ěr | Intel (US semiconductor company) |
| 英语教学 | Yīng yǔ jiāo xué | English Language Teaching (ELT); studying and teaching English |
| 中式英语 | Zhōng shì Yīng yǔ | Chinglish |
| 英国石油 | Yīng guó shí yóu | British Petroleum, BP |
| 罗家英 | Luó Jiā yīng | Law Kar-Ying (1946-), Hong Kong actor |
| 英国皇家学会 | Yīng guó Huáng jiā Xué huì | Royal Society |
| 英国石油公司 | Yīng guó shí yóu gōng sī | British Petroleum, BP |
| 英国管 | Yīng guó guǎn | English horn |
| 英联合王国 | Yīng lián hé wáng guó | United Kingdom |
| 英代尔 | Yīng dài ěr | (Tw) Intel |
| 新英格兰 | Xīn Yīng gé lán | New England |
| 大英 | Dà yīng | Daying county in Suining 遂寧|遂宁[Sui4 ning2], Sichuan; Great Britain |
| 东条英机 | Dōng tiáo Yīng jī | Tojo Hideki (1884-1948), Japanese military leader hanged as war criminal in 1948 |
| 英国 | Yīng guó | United Kingdom (UK); Britain |
| 英山 | Yīng shān | see 英山縣|英山县[Ying1 shan1 Xian4] |