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Kotomora

営

camp, perform, build, conduct (business)

JLPTN2StatusJōyō · grade 5FrequencyTop 500Strokes12

Readings

On'yomi

  • エイ

Kun'yomi

  • いとな.む
  • いとな.み

Meaning

営 centers on setting up and running an organized activity or place: building a camp, conducting business, or performing a planned operation.

Most common words using 営

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  • 運営うんえい
    N1

    management; administration; operation

  • 営業えいぎょう
    N4

    business; trade; operations

  • 経営けいえい
    N3

    management; administration; operation; running (a business); conducting

  • 陣営じんえい

    camp (supporters of a doctrine, party, etc.); faction (of a party)

  • 営利えいり
    N1

    money-making; commercialized; commercialised

  • 民営みんえい

    private management

  • 営むいとなむ
    N1

    to run (a business); to operate; to conduct; to practice (law, medicine, etc.)

  • 国営こくえい
    N1

    government management; state management

  • 市営しえい

    (under) municipal management (transport, housing, etc.); city facility management

  • 公営こうえい
    N1

    public management

  • 都営とえい
    N1

    (under) metropolitan government management

  • 直営ちょくえい

    direct management

  • 営みいとなみ

    activity; action; performance; execution

  • 自営業じえいぎょう
    N2

    independent business; self-employment

  • 自営じえい
    N1

    running one's own business; doing business on one's own; self-employment

  • 県営けんえい

    (under) prefectural management

  • 営農えいのう

    farming; agriculture

  • 営団えいだん

    corporation; foundation

  • 営繕えいぜん

    maintenance and repair; upkeep (of equipment)

  • 経営者けいえいしゃ

    manager; proprietor

  • 営業所えいぎょうしょ

    business office; place of business

  • 議院運営委員会ぎいんうんえいいいんかい

    Committee on Rules and Administration (Diet); House Steering Committee; Standing Committee for House Management

  • 民営化みんえいか

    privatization; privatisation

  • 営業マンえいぎょうマン

    salesman; businessman

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Etymology

営 is the modern simplified form of 營. The older form combines 宮 (palace/building) with 炏 (fire), suggesting a lit, inhabited place—a camp or managed site. The modern form retains the core 吕 and cover 冖, but the historical fire component is lost.

Meaning mnemonic

The top ⺌ looks like small lights or fires, and 冖 covers a space. Below, 吕 resembles two rooms or tents. Picture a lit, covered camp with two tents: a place where business is conducted.

Reading mnemonic

For エイ, imagine an A-frame tent at the camp: the letter 'A' sounds like エイ, and the tent is where you build and conduct camp activities.