荏 — Chinese character
荏
rěn
herb, mint; soft, pliable
- Pinyin
- rěn
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 艹 任
- Formation
- pictophonetic — herb; meaning component 艹; sound component 任
- Japanese
- 荏 as a kanji
Common words with 荏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荏苒 | rěn rǎn | (literary) (of time) to slip away |
| 光阴荏苒 (光陰荏苒) | guāng yīn rěn rǎn | (idiom) How time flies! |
| 色厉内荏 (色厲內荏) | sè lì nèi rěn | lit. show strength while weak inside (idiom); appearing fierce while cowardly at heart; a sheep in wolf's clothing |
荏 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.