螢 (yíng)
firefly
How 螢 is written
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 炏 — N/A
- Traditional
- 螢
- Simplified
- 萤
Components
- 炏 N/A
- 冖 cover
- 虫 insect
Common words using 螢
- 螢火 yínghuǒ
- light of firefly; fairy light
- 螢火蟲 yínghuǒchóng
- firefly; glowworm; lightning bug
- 流螢 liúyíng
- firefly
- 螢幕 yíngmù
- screen (of a TV, computer etc); also written 熒光屏|荧光屏[ying2 guang1 ping2]
- 螢石 yíngshí
- fluorite CaF2; fluorspar; fluor
螢 in a sentence
我們昨晚去山上從看螢火蟲。
Wǒmen zuówǎn qù shānshàng kàn yínghuǒchóng.
“We went to the mountains last night to see fireflies.”
How common is 螢?
螢 is the 3,428th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.5% of all running text.
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