Dong Chinese dictionary

yīng

eagle

Original meaning:

chest; breast

Depicts a bird (隹) with a mark to indicate the location of the chest, now written as 膺. 人 was later added to represent the sound. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

人 Sound component

rén

person

Modern form looks like 广.

䧹 and 人 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Mark to indicate the location of the chest.

隹 Iconic component

zhuī

bird

Evolution

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

䧹

yīng

(same as U+9DF9 鷹) hawk; eagle; falcon

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (2 verified)

鷹鹰

Sound component in 5 characters (5 verified)

應应鷹鹰膺

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

Sources

陳靖《兩周古文字編注》p.240

劉志基《中國漢字文物大系》Vol. 4, p.518