嚶
yīng

seek friends

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqreːŋ

說文解字

鳥鳴也。从口嬰聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

嘤 yīng seek friends Simplified

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

婴
婴 Sound component
yīng infant

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode