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營

yíng

camp

Phonosemantic compound. 宮 represents the meaning and 𤇾 represents the sound.

Components
𤇾 sound component

𤇾  Sound component

yìng

  

glimmer

宮 meaning component

宮  Meaning component

gōng

  

palace

Evolution

營 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
營 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
營 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
營 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

营 (營) 

yíng

encampment, barracks; manage; camp; barracks; battalion; to build; to operate; to manage; to strive for

Most common words with 營
Freq.
Word
Meaning

经营

to run

营

camp

营地

camp

营养

nutrition

运营

to be in operation

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

巆

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷeŋ

yweng

yíng

demarcate, encamp


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 31.9878% of movies

1046th most common character in movies

536th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

营

Unicode

U+71DF

Shuowen

“營，市居也。从宮，熒省聲。”


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