yīng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Japanese variant form of 樱, cherry; cherry blossom

Examples

Rìyǔ lǐ yīnghuā de yīng xiě chéng yīng.
In Japanese the cherry blossom is written 桜, the shinjitai of 樱.

Tips

history
Not a standard modern Chinese character. It is the Japanese postwar simplified (shinjitai) form of ; mainland China simplified the same character to instead, as in 樱花 (cherry blossom).
mistakes
When writing Chinese, use ; appears only in Japanese text, brand names, and names.

Components

radical
tree; wood
The tree radical is kept from , marking this as the name of a flowering tree — the cherry.
ideograph
guān
simplified graphic residue
The right side is a Japanese stylized reduction of the busy double-shell-plus-woman right half of ; it no longer maps to any meaning and is a pure simplified graphic residue.

No stroke data for ; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

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