盈

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 夃 (“exceed/augment”) + 皿 (“vessel”) – to add too much (liquid) to a vessel.

Han character

盈 (radical 108 皿+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸月廿 (NSBT), four-corner 1710₇)

1. fill
2. full, overflowing
3. surplus
4. (of the Moon) to wax

References

• KangXi: page 793, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22961
• Dae Jaweon: page 1208, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2558, character 12
• Unihan data for U+76C8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

盈 (Yale ying4)

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Japanese

Kanji

盈

Readings

• On: えい (ei)
• Kun: みちる (michiru)

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Korean

Hanja

盈 (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune-Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

盈 (pinyin yíng (ying2), Wade-Giles ying²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

盈 (doanh, dềnh, giềng, diềng, riêng)