英

yīng
#371 most
frequent character
hero, outstanding, excellent

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

英 has 艹 vegetation as the picture part and 央 yāng as the sound part. It first meant 'flower'. From there it grew to 'beautiful', 'outstanding', and 'hero'. The meaning 'England; Britain' was borrowed for the sound alone.

Drawn as: vegetation

英 as a component in other characters

sound1 character
瑛

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Same Characters, Different Readings

英Ying1
United Kingdom, British, England

Homophones

应yīng
answer, respond, agree, should
鹰yīng
eagle, falcon, hawk

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