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營
简 营 · 繁 營Mandarin · pinyin yíng
Meanings
- camp
- barracks
- battalion
- to build
- to operate
- to manage
- to strive for
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2 · ying2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
jing4
Cantonese word readings for 營. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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- (literary, or in compounds) encampment; barracks
- (literary, or in compounds, military) battalion
- (literary, or in compounds) camp; activity; event
- (literary, or in compounds) to encamp
- (literary, or in compounds) to build; to construct
- (literary, or in compounds) to operate; to run
- (literary, or in compounds) to manage; to handle
- (literary, or in compounds) to seek for; to seek
- (literary, or in compounds) to measure
- a surname: Ying
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