縈

See also: 萦

縈 U+7E08, 縈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E08 ← 縇 [U+7E07] CJK Unified Ideographs 縉 → [U+7E09]

Translingual

Han character

縈 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火火月女火 (FFBVF), four-corner 9990₃, composition ⿱𤇾糸)

1. coil
2. worry, care
3. puzzle, confuse
4. bend

Derived characters

• 瀠(潆) 礯 𦇝

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 933, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27733
• Dae Jaweon: page 1371, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3440, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7E08

Chinese

trad.		縈
simp.		萦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (熒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鶯	*qreːŋ
罃	*qreːŋ
嫈	*qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ
褮	*qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ
覮	*pqʰʷeːŋ
謍	*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ
䁝	*qʷraːŋʔ
嶸	*ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ
嵤	*ɢʷreːŋ
榮	*ɢʷreŋ
瑩	*ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs
蠑	*ɢʷreŋ
禜	*ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs
醟	*ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs
檾	*kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
煢	*ɡʷeŋ
焭	*ɡʷeŋ
縈	*qʷeŋ
營	*ɢʷeŋ
鎣	*ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs
塋	*ɢʷeŋ
濴	*ɢʷeŋ
熒	*ɡʷeːŋ
螢	*ɡʷeːŋ
滎	*ɡʷeːŋ
濙	*qʷeːŋʔ
瀅	*qʷeːŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yíng (ying²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yíng
    • Wade–Giles: ying²
    • Yale: yíng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yng
    • Palladius: ин (in)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: jing⁴
    • Yale: yìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jwieng

Rime
Character	縈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	清 (122)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於營切
Baxter	'jwieng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔwiᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔwiajŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɛŋ/
Wang Li	/ĭwɛŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wing1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʷeŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	縈
Reading #	1/1
No.	15376
Phonetic component	熒
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	縈
Old Chinese	/*qʷeŋ/

Definitions

縈

1. (literary) to entangle; to wind around

Compounds

• 嫘縈 / 嫘萦 (léiyíng)
• 左縈右拂 / 左萦右拂
• 曲折縈紆 / 曲折萦纡 (qūzhéyíngyū)
• 牽縈 / 牵萦
• 緹縈救父 / 缇萦救父
• 縈思 / 萦思
• 縈懷 / 萦怀 (yínghuái)
• 縈紆 / 萦纡 (yíngyū)
• 縈繞 / 萦绕 (yíngrào)
• 縈繫 / 萦系
• 縈迴 / 萦回
• 縈青繚白 / 萦青缭白
• 苹縈
• 魂牽夢縈 / 魂牵梦萦 (húnqiān-mèngyíng)

Japanese

Kanji

縈

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. entangle
2. entwine, coil

Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei)、よう (yō)
• Kun: めぐる (meguru)

Korean

Hanja

縈 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

1. entangle
2. entwine, coil