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荧

yíng

Character Traditional 熒

What 荧 means

1. a glimmer
2. glimmering
3. twinkling
4. fluorescence
5. phosphorescence
6. perplexed
7. dazzled and confused
8. planet Mars (arch.)

Example sentences

• Tom的眼睛被荧幕吸引住了。
  T om de yǎnjing bèi yíngmù xīyǐn zhù le.
  Tom's eyes were glued to the screen.
• 多恐怖的恐怖电影，也只不过是一部电影；你把荧幕关掉，就什么事也没有了。可是人生……你想躲也躲不掉。
  Duō kǒngbù de kǒngbùdiànyǐng, yě zhǐbuguò shì yī bù diànyǐng; nǐ bǎ yíngmù guāndiào, jiù shénme shì yě méiyǒu le. kěshì rénshēng …… nǐ xiǎng duǒ yě duǒ bù diào.
  A scary horror movie is only a movie. Once you turn off the screen it's all over, but life...you're stuck in it.
• 多恐怖的恐怖电影，也只不过是一部电影；你把荧幕关掉，就甚么事也没有了。可是人生……你想躲也躲不掉。
  A scary horror movie is only a movie. Once you turn off the screen it's all over, but life...you're stuck in it.

Words starting with 荧

• 荧屏yíng píngfluorescent screen; TV screen
• 荧光yíng guāngfluorescence; fluorescent light
• 荧光屏yíng guāng píngfluorescent screen; screen (of a TV or monitor etc)
• 荧幕yíng mùTV screen
• 荧惑yíng huòto bewilder; to dazzle and confuse; the planet Mars
• 荧荧yíng yínga glimmer; twinkling (of stars, phosphorescence, candlelight); flickering light
• 荧光幕yíng guāng mùscreen (of a TV, computer etc) (Tw)
• 荧光棒yíng guāng bàngglow stick
• 荧光灯yíng guāng dēnga fluorescent light; a fluorescent lamp
• 荧光笔yíng guāng bǐhighlighter pen; fluorescent marker
• 荧惑星Yíng huò xīngMars in traditional Chinese astronomy

Words containing 荧

• 金碧荧煌jīn bì yíng huángsplendid in green and gold (idiom); looking radiant

Characters built on 火

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

• 灵língquick; alert; efficacious
• 烃tīnghydrocarbon
• 炳bǐngbright; brilliant; luminous

Characters that look like 荧

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

• 受shòuto receive; to accept; to suffer
• 荣róngglory; honor; thriving
• 莞guānSkimmia japonica
• 莹yíngluster of gems
• 茔yíng(literary) a grave
• 奘zàng(literary) strong; robust (used in personal names); (colloquial) coarse; boorish

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
• 瀛ocean
• 滢clear; limpid (of water)
• 萤firefly; glow-worm
• 蝇fly; musca
• 萦(literary) to wind around
• 楹pillar
• 茔(literary) a grave