| 郢 | |||
| state in today\'s Hubei province | |||
| Radical | 邑𨙨 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 郢 | |||
| state in today\'s Hubei province | |||
| Radical | 邑𨙨 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 郢书燕说 | [ 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" |