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Mythic Mandarin

英 (Yīng): meaning and stroke order

英 (Yīng) means United Kingdom, British, England, English, abbr. for 英国, hero, outstanding, excellent.

英

Simplified
英
Traditional
英 (same form)
Pinyin
Yīng

Stroke order of 英

英

  • Yīng United Kingdom; British
  • yīng hero; outstanding
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 英

  1. Yīng
    • United Kingdom
    • British
    • England
    • English
    • abbr. for 英國|英国[Ying1 guo2]
  2. yīng
    • hero
    • outstanding
    • excellent
    • (literary) flower
    • blossom

Radical and structure

英
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 9 strokes · 艹 on top, 央 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 英

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).