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Hanzi Character Search: 郢

90E2

 
state in today\'s Hubei province
Radical 𨙨
Strokes (without radical) 7 Total Strokes 10
Mandarin reading yǐng chéng Cantonese reading cing2 jing5
Japanese on reading ei Japanese kun reading
Korean reading yeng Vietnamese reading

CEDICT Entries:

   [ yǐng shū yān shuō ]    lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it, fig. to misinterpret the original meaning, to pile up errors, refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"

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