yīng

breast

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

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

䧹 sound component

  Sound component

yīng

  

eagle

Evolution

膺 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
膺 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
膺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yīng

breast, chest; undertake, bear; breast; receive

Most common words with 膺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

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

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+81BA

Shuowen

“膺,胷也。从肉,聲。”


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