膺 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

yīng

breast

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 䧹 represents the sound.

Components

⺼ Meaning component

ròu

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

䧹 Sound component

yīng

eagle

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yīng

breast, chest; undertake, bear; breast; receive

Most common words with 膺

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	膺	breast
	义愤填膺	righteous indignation fills one's breast (idiom); to feel indignant at injustice
	服膺	to bear in mind
	膺选	to be elected

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[q](r)əŋ	'ing	yīng	breast(plate); oppose

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3783rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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