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萤

yíng

Character Traditional 螢

What 萤 means

1. firefly
2. glow-worm

Example sentences

• 是只萤火虫。
  It's a firefly.
• 萤幕闪着绿色的光。
  Yíngmù shǎn zhe lǜsè de guāng.
  The screen is giving off green light.
• 我更喜欢萤幕大的手机。
  I prefer a phone with a large screen.
• 如需更多萤幕空间，可以关闭侧边栏。
  If you need more room on the screen, you can toggle the sidebar off.
• 这个游戏的目的是引爆萤幕上所有的炸弹。
  Zhège yóuxì de mùdì shì yǐnbào yíngmù shàng suǒyǒu de zhàdàn.
  The aim of this game is to explode all the bombs on the screen.
• Microsoft 近期新推出了两款双萤幕装置。
  Microsoft recently unveiled two new dual screen devices.

Words starting with 萤

• 萤火虫yíng huǒ chóngfirefly; glowworm; lightning bug
• 萤光yíng guāngTaiwan variant of 荧光
• 萤幕yíng mù(Taiwan) screen (of a TV, computer etc)
• 萤火yíng huǒlight of firefly; fairy light
• 萤焰yíng yànlight of firefly; firefly
• 萤石yíng shífluorite CaF2; fluorspar; fluor
• 萤光棒yíng guāng bàngTaiwan variant of 荧光棒
• 萤光灯yíng guāng dēngTaiwan variant of 荧光灯
• 萤光绿yíng guāng lǜbright green; chartreuse
• 萤幕保护程式yíng mù bǎo hù chéng shìscreensaver (Tw)
• 萤幕保护装置yíng mù bǎo hù zhuāng zhìscreensaver (Tw)
• 萤光幕yíng guāng mùsee 萤幕

Words containing 萤

• 崔萤Cuī YíngChoi Yeong (1316-1388), general of Korean Goryeo dynasty
• 流萤liú yíngfirefly
• 聚萤映雪jù yíng yìng xuělit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom)…
• 触控萤幕chù kòng yíng mùtouchscreen; touch panel
• 触控式萤幕chù kòng shì yíng mùtouchscreen

Characters built on 虫

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

• 蝇yíngfly; musca
• 蜻qīngsee 蜻蜓
• 蜓tíngsee 蜻蜓
• 螟míngboring insect; snout moth's larva…
• 蛉língsandfly
• 虰dīngsee 虰蛵

Characters that look like 萤

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

• 董dǒngto supervise; to direct; director
• 蛮mánbarbarian; bullying; very
• 萱xuānorange day-lily (Hemerocallis flava)
• 萦yíng(literary) to wind around
• 玺xǐruler's seal
• 耋diéaged; in one's eighties

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)
• 蝇fly; musca
• 荧a glimmer; glimmering; twinkling
• 萦(literary) to wind around
• 楹pillar
• 茔(literary) a grave