yǐng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the Ying River, a major tributary of the Huai River (proper noun)

Examples

Yǐng hé shì Huái hé zuì dà de zhīliú.
The Ying River is the largest tributary of the Huai River.

Tips

history
is not a general word; it is a fixed river and place name. It names the in Henan and Anhui and survives in old place names such as . The head radical is the index; inside marks it as a watercourse.
mistakes
Do not confuse (river name, with inside) with the look-alike (as in 聪颖, 'clever', with inside). They share a sound but are different characters.

Components

radical
head (as a radical)
is the indexing radical of ; here it works as the phonetic-bearing right side rather than adding a 'head' meaning, the river sense coming from .
semantic
shuǐ
water
(water) on the upper left marks as a river, distinguishing it from the grain-topped look-alike .

Stroke Order

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