营
營yíng
#536 most
frequent character
camp, barracks, battalion, to build
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
营 has 吕 dwelling as picture part and 𫇦 yíng as sound part, first meaning a house with walls of piled dirt. The meaning then grew to 'camp', 'to build', 'barracks', and 'to do business'.
Drawn as: dwelling
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