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瘿

yǐng

Character Traditional 癭

What 瘿 means

1. goiter
2. knob on tree

Characters built on 婴

These share the phonetic component 婴 (yīng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 樱yīngcherry
• 鹦yīng(bound form) parrot
• 嘤yīngcalling of birds
• 缨yīngtassel; sth shaped like a tassel (e.g. a leaf etc); ribbon
• 璎yīngnecklace

Sounds the same

Read yǐng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 影picture; image; film
• 颖head of grain; husk; tip
• 郢Ying, ancient capital of Chu 楚 in Hubei, Jianling county 江陵县
• 矨short and small
• 颍surname Ying; river in Henan and Anhui
• 颕old variant of 颖