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瀛

yíng

Character

What 瀛 means

1. ocean

Words starting with 瀛

• 瀛洲Yíng zhōuYingzhou, easternmost of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, home of immortals and…
• 瀛台Yíng táiYingtai, artificial island in Zhongnanhai 中南海

Words containing 瀛

• 东瀛Dōng yíng(literary) East China Sea; (literary) Japan

Characters that look like 瀛

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 灌guànto irrigate; to pour; to install (software)
• 壤rǎng(bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天
• 瀑pùwaterfall
• 藤téngrattan; cane; vine
• 藻zǎoaquatic grasses; elegant
• 藩fānfence; hedge; (literary) screen; barrier; vassal state

Sounds the same

Read yíng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 迎to welcome; to meet; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties)…
• 赢to beat; to win; to profit
• 营camp; barracks; battalion
• 盈full; filled; surplus
• 莹luster of gems
• 滢clear; limpid (of water)
• 萤firefly; glow-worm
• 蝇fly; musca
• 荧a glimmer; glimmering; twinkling
• 萦(literary) to wind around
• 楹pillar
• 茔(literary) a grave