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hero; outstanding; excellent; (literary) flower; blossom

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

艹 meaning “flower” + 央 sound ( yāng )

Components 艹央

England · Heisig RSH #1323

flower + 央 center

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
大英县	Dà yīng Xiàn	Daying, a county in Suining City 遂寧市\|遂宁市[Sui4 ning2 Shi4], Sichuan
英国人	Yīng guó rén	British person; the British
英山县	Yīng shān Xiàn	Yingshan, a county in Huanggang City 黃岡市\|黄冈市[Huang2 gang1 Shi4], Hubei
大英联合王国	Dà yīng Lián hé Wáng guó	United Kingdom
英德市	Yīng dé Shì	Yingde, a county-level city in Qingyuan City 清遠市\|清远市[Qing1 yuan3 Shi4], Guangdong
英特尔	Yīng tè ěr	Intel (US semiconductor company)
英语教学	Yīng yǔ jiāo xué	English Language Teaching (ELT); studying and teaching English
中式英语	Zhōng shì Yīng yǔ	Chinglish
英国石油	Yīng guó shí yóu	British Petroleum, BP
罗家英	Luó Jiā yīng	Law Kar-Ying (1946-), Hong Kong actor
英国皇家学会	Yīng guó Huáng jiā Xué huì	Royal Society
英国石油公司	Yīng guó shí yóu gōng sī	British Petroleum, BP
英国管	Yīng guó guǎn	English horn
英联合王国	Yīng lián hé wáng guó	United Kingdom
英代尔	Yīng dài ěr	(Tw) Intel
新英格兰	Xīn Yīng gé lán	New England
大英	Dà yīng	Daying county in Suining 遂寧\|遂宁[Sui4 ning2], Sichuan; Great Britain
东条英机	Dōng tiáo Yīng jī	Tojo Hideki (1884-1948), Japanese military leader hanged as war criminal in 1948
英国	Yīng guó	United Kingdom (UK); Britain
英山	Yīng shān	see 英山縣\|英山县[Ying1 shan1 Xian4]

Characters sharing the sound component 央 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
央 sound part	yāng	central; to beg; to run out
映	yìng	to project; to reflect; to shine
秧	yāng	shoots, sprouts; young rice plants
盎	àng	pot, cup, bowl; abundant
殃	yāng	misfortune, disaster, calamity
鞅	yāng	the strap over a horse's neck
鸯	yāng	female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
泱	yāng	great, expansive; agitated
怏	yàng	discontented, dispirited, sad