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萦

yíng

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What 萦 means

1. literaryto wind around

Example sentences

• 我昨晚一整夜没睡好，因为有许多事情萦绕在我的心头。
  Wǒ zuówǎn yī zhěngyè méi shuì hǎo, yīnwèi yǒu xǔduō shìqing yíngrào zài wǒ de xīntóu.
  I couldn't sleep well last night because there were lots of things on my mind.

Words starting with 萦

• 萦绕yíng ràoto linger on; to hover; to encircle
• 萦回yíng huíto linger; to swirl around (in the air, in one's mind etc)

Words containing 萦

• 魂牵梦萦hún qiān mèng yíng(idiom) to miss very much; to yearn for
• 嫘萦léi yíngrayon

Characters that look like 萦

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

• 常chángalways; ever; often
• 索suǒto search; to demand; to ask
• 营yíngcamp; barracks; battalion
• 赁lìnto rent
• 紫zǐpurple; violet
• 莺yīngoriole or various birds of the Sylvidae family including warblers

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
• 荧a glimmer; glimmering; twinkling
• 楹pillar
• 茔(literary) a grave