\[ **up: [[Chinese language]]** ] --- # yīngyīngyīng 嘤嘤嘤 > ‘嘤嘤嘤— Yingyingying (onomatopoeia). “Cute” sobbing of little girls and/or boys that apparently makes people’s hearts clench. “Ying” by itself is a bird’s call/cry (to look for a companion), or it could just be as before, soft weeping.’[^1] [^1]: Translator notes in Xi Zixu, *[[Xi Zixu, Kaleidoscope of Death, trans. Taida Translations, 2020|Kaleidoscope of Death]]*, trans. Taida Translations (Taida Translations, 2020), chapter 2.