head of grain / husk / tip / point / clever / gifted / outstanding

= + + : Maud Younger (y) is collecting the most outstanding husks (颖) from a bowl of cereals (禾) inside of the engine ((e)ng3). She is collecting the best husks using a ladle (匕) and puts them neatly next to each other on a sheet of paper (页).

颖 character breakdown

dagger / ladle / ancient type of spoon

= 丿 + : Brunhilde plays a game inside the space station's living room (Ø3) using zero gravity: using a big ladle (mnemonic symbol for 匕) and a shovel (乚) as bats, she beats a banana (丿) back and forth.
cereal / grain

= 丿 + : A bowl of cereals. Hamlet made himself a bowl of cereals with bananas and a Christmas tree just inside the elevator's kitchen. He thinks the elevator's kitchen is a stage, and holds the bowl of cereals like he would hold Yorick's skull.
head
page / leaf

= + : mnemonic symbol: a sheet of paper.

= + : It's just too hot in Greece for the crab, so it wants to return to the ocean. Inside of the elevator's bathroom, Maud Younger helps it to do so. The plan is to just flush it down the toilet. The toilet is operated with the help of wind power, but there's no wind today. Maud Younger makes short work, grabs to sheets of paper and waves them towards the wind wheel until it turns really quickly. Finally the crab can return home.
variant of 傾|倾[qing1]
unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩[mu3] or 6.67 hectares / a short while / a little while ago / circa. (for approximate dates)

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) has to wallpaper one hectare (顷) of the engine's walls ((e)ng3). Although her only tool is a ladle (匕) she finishes the whole hectare in a moment (顷).

Characters with 颖 as component

颖 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 颖

to reveal one's talent (idiom) / to rise above others; to distinguish oneself
lit. new bud / fig. new and original
smart / intelligent
Michelle Kwan (1980-), former American figure skater, Olympic medalist
Kong Yingda (574-648), Confucian scholar
highly intelligent / original and unique
Deng Yingchao (1904-1992), Chinese communist leader, wife of Zhou Enlai 周恩來|周恩来
Wayne Wang (1949-), Chinese US film director
intelligent / bright
grain / caryopsis (single seed typical of grasses)

Sentences with 颖

颖 currently does not appear in any sentence.