営
camp, perform, build, conduct (business)
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
24 of 296- 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
Study
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.