What does "ying" mean?

Alternative form of ching (“knife”).

Ying

Common synonyms include: ancient city and former state in shaanxi, borer, cheffer, cheng, chete, china.

//ˈjɪŋ// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Noun

1
Alternative form of ching (“knife”). Multicultural-London-English, also, alt-of, alternative, reduplication, slang
"Swing my ying-ying, tryna turn man history Masking my face, so I’m so mystery […] Put rips in his teeth like fashion Swing my ying-yang Tryna do him with a passion […] I’m trying to inch up my ying"

Verb

1
Alternative form of ching (“to stab”). Multicultural-London-English, alt-of, alternative, slang
"Swing it, ying it, Hit man’s chest T-deadly"

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
"That account belongs to Li Ying, a Chinese artist turned dissident in Italy who rose to prominence in 2022 for live-tweeting the nationwide protests in China against Xi’s zero-Covid policy."
2
A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China.
"The Liao were responsible for building the tallest and oldest extant wooden pagoda, the famous Timber Pagoda in Ying county, Shanxi."
3
ancient city in Hubei, China, a former capital of the state of Chu. historical
4
Synonym of Cheng, ancient city and former state in Shaanxi, China. historical

"The Ying Yang diviner may not predict his own fate."

From Borrowed from Chinese, mainly Chinese 應 /应 and Chinese 郢 (Yǐng).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.