DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

秀英

Mandarin · pinyin Xiù yīng

see 秀英區 Xiù yīng Qū

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

秀: xiù · ear of grain; flowering, luxuriant; refined, elegant, graceful
英: yīng · petal, flower, leaf; brave, a hero; England, English

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–1 · Xiu4 ying1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links1source reference

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

秀英 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗