盈

盈 U+76C8, 盈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76C8 ← 盇 [U+76C7] CJK Unified Ideographs 盉 → [U+76C9]

Translingual

Han character

盈 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸月廿 (NSBT), four-corner 1710₇, composition ⿱夃皿)

1. fill
2. full, overflowing
3. surplus
4. (of the Moon) to wax

Derived characters

• 𡎠 㨕 溋 楹 𥈱 䋼 㵬 𨩙 𧀟 戤 𤔷 𡺦 萾

Descendants

• 𛀏

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 793, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22961
• Dae Jaweon: page 1208, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2558, character 12
• Unihan data for U+76C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		盈
2nd round simp.		⿱夃𠀃
alternative forms		盁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (盈) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
盈	*leŋ
楹	*leŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 夃 (“exceed/augment”) + 皿 (“vessel”) – to add too much (liquid) to a vessel.

Etymology

Compare Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(p/b)liŋ (“full; fill”), whence Chepang ब्‍लीङ्‌सा (bliŋ‑, “to be full; fill”), Burmese ပြည့် (prany., “to be full”), Burmese ဖြည့် (hprany., “to add”) (Schuessler, 2007, STEDT). An allofam is perhaps 孕 (OC *lɯŋs, “pregnant”), as well as 填 (OC *diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins, “to fill up”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yíng (ying²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): yìn

  (Meixian, Guangdong): yin²

• Eastern Min (BUC): ìng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iâⁿ / ihⁿ / êng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): iong⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶yin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yíng
    • Wade–Giles: ying²
    • Yale: yíng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yng
    • Palladius: ин (in)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jing⁴
    • Yale: yìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yìn
    • Hakka Romanization System: inˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yin²
    • Sinological IPA: /in¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yìn
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)inˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yin²
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)in¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yin²
    • Sinological IPA: /in¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iâⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: iânn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: viaa
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iã¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /iã²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ihⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: innh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: viq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ĩʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: êng
    • Tâi-lô: îng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: eeng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ²³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /iɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ¹³/

Note:

• iâⁿ/ihⁿ - vernacular;
• êng - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: iong⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iông
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ioŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶yin
    • MiniDict: yin^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦin²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 盈
Mandarin	Beijing	/iŋ³⁵/
	Harbin	/iŋ²⁴/
	Tianjin	/iŋ⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/iŋ⁴²/
	Qingdao	/iŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/iŋ⁴²/
	Xi'an	/iŋ²⁴/
	Xining	/iə̃²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/iŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ĩn³¹/
	Ürümqi	/iŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/in²¹³/
	Chengdu	/in³¹/
	Guiyang	/in²¹/
	Kunming	/ĩ¹/
	Nanjing	/in²⁴/
	Hefei	/in⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/iəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/iŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ĩŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦiŋ²³/
	Suzhou	/in⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ɦin²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/jaŋ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/iʌ̃³¹/
	Tunxi	/in⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/in¹³/
	Xiangtan	/in¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/in⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/in¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/in¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jeŋ²¹/
	Nanning	/jeŋ²¹/
	Hong Kong	/jiŋ²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/iŋ³⁵/ /iã³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/iŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/iŋ²¹/ /ieiŋ²¹/ 新
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ioŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/zeŋ³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yeng

Rime
Character	盈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以成切
Baxter	yeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/iæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiajŋ/
Li Rong	/iɛŋ/
Wang Li	/jĭɛŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yíng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jing4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*leŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*leŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	盈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yíng
Middle Chinese	‹ yeng ›
Old Chinese	/*leŋ/ (< *liŋ?)
English	fill
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	盈
Reading #	1/1
No.	15352
Phonetic component	盈
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	盈
Old Chinese	/*leŋ/

Definitions

盈

1. to fill; to be full of; to be filled with

   車馬盈門／车马盈门  ―  chēmǎyíngmén  ―  to have many guests (literally, “vehicles and horses fill the door”)

   • 我倉既盈，我庾維憶。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     我仓既盈，我庾维忆。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Wǒ cāng jì yíng, wǒ yǔ wéi yì. [Pinyin]

     When our barns are full,
     And our stacks can be counted by tens of myriads.

   • 恩典白白給予，令我盈淚眼珠。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     恩典白白给予，令我盈泪眼珠。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2006, 劉殷傑 [Jackie Lau], 數算奇異恩典 [Count His Grace]

     jan¹ din² baak⁶ baak⁶ kap¹ jyu⁵, ling⁶ ngo⁵ jing⁴ leoi⁶ ngaan⁵ zyu¹. [Jyutping]

     Grace He freely gives me, causing my eyes to be filled with tears.

2. to have a surplus; to have excess

   盈餘／盈余  ―  yíngyú  ―  surplus

3. (of a person's body, or handwriting) well-developed; full-grown; shapely; curvaceous; plump

   豐盈／丰盈  ―  fēngyíng  ―  full and round

4. (obsolete) vigorous; exuberant

   • 彼竭我盈，故克之。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bǐ jié wǒ yíng, gù kè zhī. [Pinyin]

     With our spirit at the highest pitch we fell on them with their spirit exhausted; and so we conquered them.

5. (literary) to reach

   • 且年未盈五十，而諄諄焉如八九十者，弗能久矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     且年未盈五十，而谆谆焉如八九十者，弗能久矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Qiě nián wèi yíng wǔshí, ér zhūnzhūn yān rú bā jiǔshí zhě, fú néng jiǔ yǐ. [Pinyin]

     And moreover, though his years are not yet fifty, he keeps repeating the same thing like a man of eighty or ninety—he cannot endure long.

   • 連峰去天不盈尺，枯松倒掛倚絕壁。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     连峰去天不盈尺，枯松倒挂倚绝壁。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. early 8th century, Li Bai (李白), 《蜀道難》

     Liánfēng qù tiān bù yíng chǐ, kūsōng dǎoguà yǐ juébì. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

6. (literary) to increase
7. (obsolete) proud; arrogant

   • 天道虧盈而益謙，地道變盈而流謙，鬼神害盈而福謙，人道惡盈而好謙。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     天道亏盈而益谦，地道变盈而流谦，鬼神害盈而福谦，人道恶盈而好谦。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: I Ching, 11^th – 8^th century BCE

     Tiāndào kuī yíng ér yì qiān, dìdào biàn yíng ér liú qiān, guǐshén hài yíng ér fú qiān, réndào wù yíng ér hào qiān. [Pinyin]

     It is the way of heaven to diminish the full and augment the humble. It is the way of earth to overthrow the full and replenish the humble. Spiritual Beings inflict calamity on the full and bless the humble. It is the way of men to hate the full and love the humble.

8. a surname

Synonyms

• (to fill): 充滿／充满 (chōngmǎn), (literary) 充牣 (chōngrèn)
• (well-developed): (literary) 充盈 (chōngyíng), 豐滿／丰满 (fēngmǎn)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "to have a surplus"): (literary, or in compounds) 虧／亏 (kuī)

Compounds

• 保泰持盈
• 保留盈餘／保留盈余
• 充盈 (chōngyíng)
• 取盈
• 喜气盈盈
• 器小易盈
• 囊橐豐盈／囊橐丰盈
• 彼竭我盈 (bǐjiéwǒyíng)
• 志盈心满
• 怨聲盈路／怨声盈路
• 憤盈／愤盈
• 持滿戒盈／持满戒盈
• 持盈
• 持盈保泰
• 持盈守成
• 持盈守虛／持盈守虚
• 擲果盈車／掷果盈车
• 方丈盈前
• 春水盈盈
• 月盈則虧／月盈则亏
• 月盈則食／月盈则食
• 業貫盈／业贯盈
• 沸反盈天
• 淚珠盈眶／泪珠盈眶
• 滿盈／满盈 (mǎnyíng)
• 熱淚盈眶／热泪盈眶 (rèlèiyíngkuàng)
• 盈利 (yínglì)
• 盈則必虧／盈则必亏
• 盈千累百
• 盈千累萬／盈千累万
• 盈室
• 盈尺之地
• 盈掬
• 盈溢
• 盈滿／盈满
• 盈滿之咎／盈满之咎
• 盈盈 (yíngyíng)
• 盈盈一水
• 盈盈一水
• 盈盈在目
• 盈盈在目
• 盈盈带水
• 盈盈秋水
• 盈盈笑语
• 盈眸
• 盈眶 (yíngkuàng)
• 盈視／盈视
• 盈積／盈积
• 盈篇累牘／盈篇累牍
• 盈縮／盈缩
• 盈耳
• 盈虛／盈虚
• 盈虧／盈亏 (yíngkuī)
• 盈警 (yíngjǐng)
• 盈貫／盈贯
• 盈車嘉穗／盈车嘉穗
• 盈門／盈门
• 盈餘／盈余 (yíngyú)
• 益謙虧盈／益谦亏盈
• 福不盈眥／福不盈眦
• 禍盈惡稔／祸盈恶稔
• 秋波盈盈
• 笑意盈盈
• 笑盈盈
• 笑语盈盈
• 累積盈餘／累积盈余
• 纖不盈握／纤不盈握
• 肌理豐盈／肌理丰盈
• 蓝盈盈
• 豐盈／丰盈 (fēngyíng)
• 貫盈／贯盈 (guànyíng)
• 賓客盈庭／宾客盈庭
• 賓客盈門／宾客盈门
• 車馬盈門／车马盈门
• 輕盈／轻盈 (qīngyíng)
• 量小易盈
• 驕盈／骄盈 (jiāoyíng)
• 體態輕盈／体态轻盈

 

Japanese

Kanji

盈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. fill
2. surplus

Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)
• Kan-on: えい (ei)
• Kun: みちる (michiru); みたす (mitasu); みつ (mitsu)
• Nanori: みち (michi); みちる (michiru); みつ (mitsu); みつる (mitsuru)

Compounds

Compounds with 盈

• 潮盈珠(しおみつたま) (shiomitsutama)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
盈
えい Hyōgaiji
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 盈 (MC yeng).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e̞ː]

Affix

盈(えい) • (ei) 

1. to be full; to be filled; (of moon) to wax

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 盈盈(えいえい) (eiei)
• 盈虧(えいき) (eiki)
• 盈虚(えいきょ) (eikyo)
• 盈月(えいげつ) (eigetsu)
• 盈満(えいまん) (eiman)
• 虧盈(きえい) (kiei)
• 欠盈(けつえい) (ketsuei)
• 充盈(じゅうえい) (jūei)
• 満盈(まんえい) (man'ei)

Korean

Hanja

盈 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

盈: Hán Nôm readings: dềnh, doanh, giềng, diềng, riêng

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