róng

flourish, glory

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

Components
𤇾 sound component

𤇾  Sound component

yìng

  

glimmer

𤇾 is a component form of .

木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

Evolution

榮 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
榮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
榮 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
榮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

róng

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

() 

Róng

surname Rong

Most common words with 榮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

荣幸

honored (to have the privilege of ...)

荣誉

honor

glory

光荣

glorious

繁荣

prosperous

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

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

Unicode

U+69AE

Shuowen

“榮,桐木也。从木,熒省聲。一曰屋梠之兩頭起者為榮。”


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