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穎

穎

See also: 頴 and 颖

Translingual

Han character

穎 (radical 115 禾+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 心木一月金 (PDMBC), four-corner 21986, composition ⿰⿱匕禾頁)

  1. rice tassel
  2. sharp point
  3. clever

References

  • KangXi: page 859, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25267
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1286, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4376, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7A4E

Chinese

trad. 穎
simp. 颖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (頃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
顈 *ɡeːnʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
傾 *kʰʷeŋ
頃 *kʰʷeŋ, *kʰʷeŋʔ
穎 *ɢʷeŋʔ
潁 *ɢʷeŋʔ
熲 *kʷeːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷeŋʔ) : semantic 禾 ‎(“grain”) + phonetic 頃 ‎(OC *kʰʷeŋ, *kʰʷeŋʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 穎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 清 (122)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 餘頃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jwiᴇŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jʷiɛŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iuæŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jwiajŋX/
Li
Rong		 /iuɛŋX/
Wang
Li		 /jĭwɛŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯wɛŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǒng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 穎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǐng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ywengX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷeŋʔ/
English point of an ear of grain

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 穎
Reading # 1/1
No. 10509
Phonetic
component		 頃
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 潁
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷeŋʔ/

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穎

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Japanese

Kanji

穎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

穎 • ‎(yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune-Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

穎 (dĩnh, dánh, dính, nhảnh, giảnh)

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