tí​yíng

Ti Ying

  • created sense approved 缇萦/緹縈 · tí​yíng · Ti Ying — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    缇萦 / 緹縈

    tí​yíng

    Ti Ying

    Tiying (c. 2nd century BCE), daughter of the physician Chunyu Yi, famous for her filial piety during the Western Han dynasty; she petitioned Emperor Wen to save her father from corporal punishment by offering herself as a government slave, which led to the abolition of such punishments

    缇 (literal) → 缇/緹 · tí · orange-red 萦 (literal) → 萦/縈 · yíng · to wind around

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense