Character: 營
Modern (Beijing) reading: yíng
Preclassic Old Chinese: weŋ
Classic Old Chinese: weŋ
Western Han Chinese: weŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: weŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: weŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: weŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: weŋ
Middle Chinese: jweŋ
English meaning : to lay out, plan, build
Russian meaning[s]: 1) военный лагерь; казармы; форт; казарменный, военный; 2) батальон; дивизион; 3) строить; заниматься; предпринимать; предприятие; 4) заведовать, распоряжаться; вести предприятие; 5) замышлять; добиваться
Comments: Also used for a homonymous onomatopoeic *weŋ 'be buzzing about'. The Viet. loanword (having a later derived meaning 'palace; military camp') is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is doanh.
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 1451
Karlgren code: 0843 f
Vietnamese reading: dinh
