膺 (yīng) · chest; breast

Meanings

1 chest; breast
2 to bear; to receive (a duty or punishment)

Characters

膺

yīng

chest; to bear

Examples

HSK 7-9

旧事填膺，思之凄梗。

Jiùshì tiányīng, sī zhī qī gěng.

Old memories filled his chest, painful to recall.

HSK 7-9

作恶者必膺惩。

Zuò'èzhě bì yīng chéng.

The wrongdoers shall receive due punishment.

Tips

usage

Literary. The chest sense appears in 义愤填膺 (filled with righteous indignation). The 'to bear' sense gives 服膺 (to keep firmly in mind) and 膺惩 (to punish).

Components

radical

⺼ ròu

flesh; meat radical

The meat-flesh radical (a form of 肉), not the moon. As a body-part character, it carries the core meaning 'chest'.

phonetic

䧹 yīng

falcon (phonetic element)

The upper-left enclosing element, also the phonetic in 鹰 (eagle) and 应. It supplies the yīng sound and wraps around the meaning part below.

Stroke Order

膺 yīng

Related Words

义愤填膺 yìfèn-tiányīng #50,851

righteous indignation fills one's breast / to be filled with moral outrage

李膺舟 lǐyīngzhōu

Li Ying's boat / the boat of a kindred spirit / to be treasured by one who truly knows you

受 shòu HSK 3 #436

to receive / to bear / to suffer

受过 shòuguò

to take the blame; to bear punishment for someone else

见证 jiànzhèng HSK 7-9 #4,603

to witness / to bear witness to / testimony

忍不住 rěnbuzhù #4,573

cannot help (doing something) / unable to bear; unable to hold back

接收 jiēshōu HSK 5 #5,142

to receive; to accept / to take over; to admit

禁 jīn #4,360

to bear; to endure; to withstand / to contain (oneself); to refrain from

奈 nài #4,217

how can one help; to cope with / to bear; to endure

负担 fùdān HSK 5 #3,910

burden; load / to bear (a burden or cost)