DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

英短

Mandarin · pinyin yīng duǎn

British shorthair (abbr. for 英國短毛貓 Yīng guó duǎn máo māo)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

英: yīng · petal, flower, leaf; brave, a hero; England, English
短: duǎn · short; brief; deficient, lacking

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

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–3 · ying1 duan3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links

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.

英短 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

jing1 dyun2

Cantonese word readings for 英短. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack