Memory phrase for the character: 颖


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Meaning clever, gifted, new and original, head of grain

Pronunciation

yǐng

Explanation

Top: a short while ago 顷 (sitting person , head 页/), below left: rice plant

Mnemonic


 
It sits on the rice plant the spike (="the grain's head"), which is considered: "clever and gifted".

Radicals

spoon, ladleIn the explanations this radical is also used as a sitting person. (Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting cross-legged , lying , kneeling , skilled , bending ,, slumped or husband )
grainGrain plant with a spike of grain
head, leaderPicture of an eye with emphasized eye-brows to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.
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 Vocabulary

连哄带骗 lián hōng dài piàn  
新颖 xīn yǐng  lit. new bud; fig. new and original
关颖珊 Guān Yǐng shān  Michelle Kwan
关颖珊 Guān Yǐng shān  


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