Chinese Character 营 Meanings and components.

Form

营

Meaning

营 meaning[3] in English

Camp.

Barracks.

Battalion.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 营 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 … (艹) , and surname Lü (吕)

Its radical[1] is: 艸 (cao3) which means: Variant Of 草[Cao3], .艸cao3variant of …

In cangjie it is written with TBRR

How to write 营

To write营ying2camp you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 吕lv3surname Lü arranged in a 冖 shape:

艹 + 吕 = 营

营 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 营 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 营, looks as follow:

营
Pinyin:ying2 Shape:冖
Meaning[3]: Camp . Barracks . Battalion . To Build . To Operate . To Manage . To Strive For
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
吕
Pinyin:lv3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Lü
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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