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 匕, head 页/頁), below left: rice plant 禾

Mnemonic


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

Radicals

spoon, ladleThis character means: Spoon. - In the explanations it is typically used as a sitting person. (Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)
grainGrain plant 木 with a spike ノ of grain
head, leaderPicture of an eye 目 with emphasized eye-brows 首 to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows 頁 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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