(yíng)

8 strokesTrad.

(literary) a grave

Stroke order animation

Character information

Pinyin
yíng
Meaning
(literary) a grave
Strokes
8
HSK level
Traditional

Origin & structure

Where comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿳艹冖土

Grass 艹 covering a buried 土 casket 冖

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

Parts are arranged three parts stacked.

Traditional form : Grass 炏 covering a buried 土 casket 冖

How to write step by step

8 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with

Common words using — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

fényíng

grave; tomb; graveyard; cemetery; fig. one's native place (where one's ance…

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yíng

ancestral tomb

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