英
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Translingual
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Han character
英 (radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿中月大 (TLBK), four-corner 44530, composition ⿱艹央)
Derived characters
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
Chinese
| trad. | 英 | |
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| simp. # | 英 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (央) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 鴦 | *qaːŋ, *qaŋ |
| 佒 | *qaːŋ |
| 咉 | *qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ |
| 眏 | *qaːŋ |
| 姎 | *qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ |
| 坱 | *qaːŋʔ |
| 映 | *qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs |
| 泱 | *qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ |
| 盎 | *qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs |
| 駚 | *qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ |
| 軮 | *qaːŋʔ |
| 醠 | *qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs |
| 央 | *qaŋ |
| 秧 | *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ |
| 殃 | *qaŋ |
| 鞅 | *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs |
| 鉠 | *qaŋ, *qraŋ |
| 雵 | *qaŋ |
| 胦 | *qaŋ, *qroːŋ |
| 柍 | *qaŋʔ |
| 詇 | *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs |
| 岟 | *qaŋʔ |
| 炴 | *qaŋʔ |
| 怏 | *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs |
| 紻 | *qaŋʔ |
| 英 | *qraŋ |
| 瑛 | *qraŋ |
| 霙 | *qraŋ |
| 韺 | *qraŋ |
| 媖 | *qraŋ |
| 渶 | *qraŋ |
| 鶧 | *qraŋ |
| 楧 | *qraŋ |
| 暎 | *qraŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qraŋ) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 央 (OC *qaŋ).
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan & related to Mizo ân (“to open the mouth to receive food, to open to”) and âng (“to open (mouth), to gape with open mouth”), thus 英 (OC *qraŋ) conjures the mental image of an opening flower (Schuessler, 2007).
However, Schuessler points to Mizo êng (“light”) and Mizo ên (“to shine, to give light, bright, brilliant”) as well as notes Bahnar à:ŋ (“light”) (which is from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cʔaiŋ (“light, to shine”)), though he suggests that these Austroasiatic and Mizo items may be related to 影 (OC *qraŋʔ, “shadow”) instead (ibid.)
Pronunciation
Definitions
英
Compounds
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Japanese
Readings
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 英 |
| えい Grade: 4 |
| kan’on |
From Middle Chinese 英 (MC ʔˠiæŋ).
The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.
Affix
- Short for 英吉利 (Igirisu, “United Kingdom”).
- Short for 英語 (eigo, “English (language)”).
- outstanding; outstanding person
- flower; calyx
Derived terms
Korean
Hanja
英 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, McCune–Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)
- the UK, Great Britain(In compounds, in news media)
- petal
Vietnamese
Han character
英
(anh)
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