yíng
camp
Phonosemantic compound. 宮 represents the meaning and 𤇾 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
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 | |
Unicode | U+71DF |
Shuowen | “營,市居也。从宮,熒省聲。” |
Sources
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