英
Meanings
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- 1.hero
- 2.outstanding
- 3.excellent
- 4.(literary) flower
- 5.blossom
- 1.United Kingdom
- 2.British
- 3.England
- 4.English
- 5.abbr. for 英国[Yīng guó]
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Wiktionary
- 1.flower; blossom
- 2.outstanding
- 3.fine; excellent
- 4.finest part; quintessence
- 5.hero; outstanding person
- 6.panache on a lance
- 7.a surname, Ying
- 8.(short form) short for 英語 /英语 (Yīngyǔ), English (Germanic language)
- 9.Used in transcription.
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qraŋ): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 央 (OC *qaŋ). Uncertain. There are several possibilities: * Of Sino-Tibetan origin, related to Mizo ân (“to open the mouth to receive food, to open to”), âng (“to open (mouth), to gape with open mouth”); if so, this word would come from the idea of an open flower (Schuessler, 2007); * Related to Mizo êng (“light”), ên (“to shine, to give light, bright, brilliant”) (Schuessler, 2007); * Related to Proto-Bahnaric *ʔaːŋ (“bright”) (from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cʔaiŋ (“light, to shine”)), which may be also/instead related to 影 (OC *qraŋʔ, “shadow”) (Schuessler, 2007); * Related to 秧 (OC *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, “rice seedling”) (Sagart, 2011).
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Components
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Example sentences
說英語很難。
Speaking English is difficult.
英語很難學。
English is difficult to learn.
我會講英語。
I can speak English.
他會講英語嗎？
Can he speak English?
他會講英語嗎？
Does he speak English?
我不喜歡英語。
I don't like English.
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Derived terms
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