榮 - Dong Chinese dictionary

róng

flourish, glory

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

Components

yìng

glimmer

𤇾 is a component form of 熒.

榮 and 𤇾 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.榮 /*[N-qʷ]reŋ/, /*[N-qʷ]reŋ/
𤇾 /*[N]-qʷˤeŋ/

木 Meaning component

mù

tree

Evolution

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

荣 (榮)

róng

glory, honor; flourish, prosper; glory; honor; thriving

荣 (榮)

Róng

surname Rong

Most common words with 榮

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	荣幸	honored (to have the privilege of ...)
	荣誉	honor
	荣	glory
	光荣	glorious
	繁荣	prosperous

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

嶸蠑

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[N-qʷ]reŋ	hjwaeng	róng	glory, honor
*[N-qʷ]reŋ	hjwaeng	róng	榮觀 imperial palace; walls and watchtowers

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 35.9603% of movies

1026th most common character in movies

993rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	14
Simplified	荣
Unicode	U+69AE
Shuowen	“榮，桐木也。从木，熒省聲。一曰屋梠之兩頭起者為榮。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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