Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Communication & Thought

営: camp, perform

Also: build, conduct (business)

JLPT N212 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

呂 carries the meaning · 𤇾 gives the sound

12 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

エイei · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 営利えいりprofit making, gain [n.]
  • 陣営じんえいcamp [n.]
  • 都営とえいrun by the city Tokyo
  • 市営しえいrun by the city, municipal
  • 営業するえいぎょうするrun a business
  • 経営するけいえいするmanage
  • 運営するうんえいするadminister

いとなむitonamu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 営むいとなむhold (ceremony), run (business)

Also read いとなみ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)熒 (sound) + 宮 palace (meaning)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): abbreviated phonetic 熒 + abbreviated semantic 宮 (“palace”), depicting a person working all night with a light on his house.

Source: Wiktionary, 營 (rev. 92750248), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Tsu crown (⺍) + two boxes (口) + cloth/bottom. Represents the busy, "sparking" activity of "managing" a large building or running a business office.”
From the ⺍ katakana Tsu story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
𤇾

Also built on 𤇾

営 takes the 𤇾 family's reading, エイ (ei).

呂

Also built on spine (呂)

Also read エイ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
営 camp · 𤇾
vs宮 Shinto shrine · 宀
営 has 𤇾 where 宮 has 宀.
In ChineseSimplified 营 · traditional 營 · yíng

Three different forms: Japanese 営, simplified 营, traditional 營.

Simplified
营 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
營 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yíng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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