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営 — 12 strokes ／ Radical「口」

道
6Elementary year 5 ／ 12 strokes ／ Radical「口」
On
エイえい · ei
Kun
いとな(む)itona(mu)
Meaning
to run (a business); manage; camp

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Watch-fires burning over 呂 "buildings"; setting up a camp — hence "to manage, to run."

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onエイえいei営業えいぎょう経営けいえい陣営じんえい
Kunいとなむitonamu営むいとなむ営みいとなみ

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 経営けいえい

    management (of a business)

  • 営業えいぎょう

    business operations; sales

More words with this kanji

  • 営繕えいぜん

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

父(ちち)は小(ちい)さな店(みせ)を営(いとな)んでいる。

My father runs a small shop.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

営業経営営業work経to pas…句phrase可possib…史histor…告to tel…喜to rej…永eterna…衛to gua…曳pull兌to exc…泄to lea…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

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Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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