yìng
verb HSK 7-9 #9,571

Meanings

  1. 1 to reflect
  2. 2 to shine
  3. 3 to project

Examples

Fǎnyìng
to reflect; to mirror
Fàngyìng
to show (a movie); to screen

Tips

memory
(sun) + (center) — sunlight shining and reflecting

Components

radical
sun (radical)
Left sun radical — the indexing radical, an oblong with a dot marking the disc. Anchors firmly in the light/time family with bright, warm, , clear. Here it supplies the light source: the sun's rays falling on a surface is the originating image behind reflection, glow, and the modern sense 'to screen a film'.
phonetic
yāng
centre (here phonetic)
Right supplies the sound, drifting from yāng to yìng with a tone shift typical in older phono-semantic pairings. The 'centre' sense plays no part in the meaning; pure sound peg here. Same phonetic powers disaster, mandarin duck mate, dispirited.

Stroke Order

yìng