嬰
嬰 — yeong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 어린아이 영
- Romanization
- yeong
- English
- baby, infant; bother
- Mandarin
- yīng
- Japanese on'yomi
- エイ, ヨウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ふ.れる みどりご あかご
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 女 (38, 14 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5B30
How 嬰 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 嬰 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 貝, 癭.
Japanese words with 嬰
- 嬰えい sharp
- 嬰児えいじ infant; baby
- 嬰音えいおん sharp (musical note)
- 退嬰たいえい conservativeness; conservatism; regression
- 嬰記号えいきごう sharp (sign)
- 退嬰的たいえいてき conservative; regressive; backward-looking
- 嬰ヘ長調えいヘちょうちょう F sharp major
- 退嬰主義たいえいしゅぎ backward-looking philosophy (ideology); conservatism
- 退嬰政策たいえいせいさく conservative (regressive) policy
- 重嬰記号じゅうえいきごう double sharp (symbol)
- 嬰ハ短調えいハたんちょう C sharp minor
- 嬰児殺しえいじごろし infanticide
Other hanja read “영”
Other hanja with radical 女
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