女英

Nǚyīng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Nüying, daughter of the legendary Emperor Yao and, with her sister Ehuang, a wife of Shun

Examples

HSK 6
Chuánshuō Nǚyīng hé jiějie Éhuáng sǐ hòu chéng le Xiāngjiāng de nǚshén.
Legend says that after their deaths Nüying and her elder sister Ehuang became goddesses of the Xiang River.
HSK 7-9
Yáo bǎ liǎng ge nǚ'ér Éhuáng hé Nǚyīng dōu jià gěi le Shùn.
Yao married both his daughters, Ehuang and Nüying, to Shun.

Tips

culture
The sisters are the 湘妃, "consorts of the Xiang". Their tears for Shun, who died on a journey south, are said to have spotted the bamboo by the river, the 湘妃竹. Later readers took them to be 湘君 and 湘夫人 of the 《九歌》.

Stroke Order

女 nǚ
英 yīng