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  *赢* | 赢* | *赢
to beat / to win / to profit
HSK 3
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  *应* | 应* | *应
to agree (to do sth) / should / ought to / must / (legal) shall
HSK 4
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  *应* | 应* | *应
to answer / to respond / to comply with / to deal or cope with
HSK 5
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  *硬* | 硬* | *硬
hard; stiff; solid / (fig.) strong; firm / resolutely; uncompromisingly / laboriously; with great difficulty / good (quality); able (person) / (of food) filling; substantial
HSK 5
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  *鹰* | 鹰* | *鹰
eagle / falcon / hawk
HSK 7-9
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  *映* | 映* | *映
to reflect (light) / to shine / to project (an image onto a screen etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *迎* | 迎* | *迎
to welcome; to meet / to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties); to meet face to face
HSK 7-9
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  *映* | 映* | *映
old variant of
HSK 7-9
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  *影* | 影* | *影
picture / image / film / movie / photograph / reflection / shadow / trace
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  *樱* | 樱* | *樱
cherry
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  *营* | 营* | *营
camp / barracks / battalion / to build / to operate / to manage / to strive for
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  *应* | 应* | *应
surname Ying / Taiwan pr. [Ying4]
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  *瀛* | 瀛* | *瀛
ocean
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  *英* | 英* | *英
United Kingdom / British / England / English / abbr. for 英國|英国
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  *英* | 英* | *英
hero / outstanding / excellent / (literary) flower / blossom
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  *婴* | 婴* | *婴
infant / baby
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  *瑛* | 瑛* | *瑛
(literary) translucent stone similar to jade / (literary) luster of jade
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  *盈* | 盈* | *盈
full / filled / surplus
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  *萤* | 萤* | *萤
firefly / glow-worm
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  *颖* | 颖* | *颖
head of grain / husk / tip / point / clever / gifted / outstanding
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  *荧* | 荧* | *荧
a glimmer / glimmering / twinkling / fluorescence / phosphorescence / perplexed / dazzled and confused / planet Mars (arch.)
Ying Zheng (260-210 BC), personal name of the first emperor 秦始皇
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  *嬴* | 嬴* | *嬴
surname Ying
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  *楹* | 楹* | *楹
pillar
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  *茔* | 茔* | *茔
(literary) a grave
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  *萦* | 萦* | *萦
(literary) to wind around
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  *莺* | 莺* | *莺
oriole or various birds of the Sylvidae family including warblers
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  *颍* | 颍* | *颍
surname Ying / river in Henan and Anhui
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  *嘤* | 嘤* | *嘤
calling of birds
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  *罂* | 罂* | *罂
earthen jar with small mouth
Ying County in Shuozhou 朔州, Shanxi
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  *鹦* | 鹦* | *鹦
(bound form) parrot
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  *媵* | 媵* | *媵
maid escorting bride to new home / concubine
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  *缨* | 缨* | *缨
tassel / sth shaped like a tassel (e.g. a leaf etc) / ribbon
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  *郢* | 郢* | *郢
Ying, ancient capital of Chu in Hubei, Jianling county 江陵縣|江陵县
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  *瘿* | 瘿* | *瘿
goiter / knob on tree
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  *潆* | 潆* | *潆
eddy / small river
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  *蝇* | 蝇* | *蝇
fly / musca / CL: 隻|只
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  *膺* | 膺* | *膺
breast / receive
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  *蓥* | 蓥* | *蓥
polish
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  *璎* | 璎* | *璎
necklace
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  *荥* | 荥* | *荥
lit. the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政 by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲 in 227 BC) (idiom) / fig. malicious intent suddenly becomes apparent
Lai Chee-ying, aka Jimmy Lai (1947-), Hong Kong media tycoon, prominent critic of the CCP and supporter of the pro-democracy camp 民主派
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  *溁* | 溁* | *溁
(archaic) (of water) to swirl; to eddy / (used in place names)
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  *嫈* | 嫈* | *嫈
attentively / carefully
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  *媖* | 媖* | *媖
(complimentary name for a woman)
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  *煐* | 煐* | *煐
(used in names) / British thermal unit (BTU)
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  *嬴* | 嬴* | *嬴
old variant of 贏|赢, to win, to profit / old variant of , full
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  *锳* | 锳* | *锳
(onom.) ring / tinkle
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  *渶* | 渶* | *渶
river in Shandong Province (old)
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  *撄* | 撄* | *撄
oppose / to attack
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  *霙* | 霙* | *霙
sleet / snowflakes
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  *莺* | 莺* | *莺
variant of 鶯|莺
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  *籯* | 籯* | *籯
slender basket for chopsticks
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  *韺* | 韺* | *韺
music of legendary emperor Gu
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  *賏* | 賏* | *賏
pearls or shells strung together
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  *罂* | 罂* | *罂
variant of 罌|罂
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  *罃* | 罃* | *罃
earthen jar with long neck
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  *甇* | 甇* | *甇
earthen jar with long neck
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  *桜* | 桜* | *桜
Japanese variant of 櫻|樱
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  *颕* | 颕* | *颕
old variant of 穎|颖
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  *朠* | 朠* | *朠
(archaic) moonlight
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  *矨* | 矨* | *矨
short and small
Wang Ying (character in the "Water Margin")
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  *蛍* | 蛍* | *蛍
Japanese variant of 螢|萤
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  *応* | 応* | *応
Japanese variant of 應|应
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  *営* | 営* | *営
Japanese variant of 營|营
Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇)
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  *籝* | 籝* | *籝
old variant of
Xiang Ying (1898-1941), communist general involved in forming the New Fourth Army 新四軍|新四军, killed in 1941 during the New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变
Lao Ai (-238 BC), man of Qin famous for his giant penis / in fiction, bogus eunuch and the consort of king Ying Zheng's mother lady Zhao
Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国, subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代 Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zheng 嬴政, who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇
Cherrie Ying Choi-Yi (1983-), actress
Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016
Shen Ying of Wu, governor (268-280) of coastal province of Wu and compiler of Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer 臨海水土誌|临海水土志
Henry Ying-tung Fok (1913-2006), Hong Kong tycoon with close PRC connections
Yan Ying (-c 500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States, also known as Yanzi 晏子 , hero of book 晏子春秋
Yuan Ying (1878-1953), Buddhist monk
the timber pagoda of the Fogong Temple in Ying County, Shanxi, built in 1056 (Song dynasty)
lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it / fig. to misinterpret the original meaning / to pile up errors / refers to the letter from capital of in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of as "promote the wise"
Leung Chun-ying (1954-), 3rd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Prince Dan of Yan (-226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲 in 227 BC
Liu Houzong (1904-1949), originally Hunan guerilla leader, rewarded by Chiang Kaishek for killing Xiang Ying 項英|项英 during the 1941 New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变
Prince Dan of Yan (-226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲 in 227 BC
another name for Yan Ying 晏嬰|晏婴 or Yanzi 晏子 (-500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States 齊國|齐国
Li Ying (1963-), Japanese-educated Chinese documentary film director
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *滢* | 滢* | *滢
clear / limpid (of water)
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  *莹* | 莹* | *莹
luster of gems
Law Kar-Ying (1946-), Hong Kong actor
Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer (c. 275) by Shen Ying 沈瑩|沈莹
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  *謍* | 謍* | *謍
humming sound
Ying Zhua Fan Zi Quan - "Eagle Claw" - Martial Art


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