component #29,448

Meanings

  1. 1 reputation
  2. 2 to praise

Examples

HSK 2
Míngyù
reputation; fame
HSK 4
Róngyù
honor; glory

Tips

usage
A good reputation comes from what people say () about you.

Components

radical
yán
speech; words
Speech radical at the bottom - depicts a mouth with a tongue above, the standard marker for anything verbal. Carries the meaning of directly: praise, honour, reputation are all things said about someone. Sits with vow, warn, illustrate - the upright- family of speech-acts. Distinct from the contracted used on the left.
phonetic
xīng
rise; flourish (here phonetic residue)
Top six strokes now read as 'rise, flourish' in the modern simplified form. Historically this was (now , 'together'), supplying the yù sound. The modern look is a simplification accident - is a doublet for the cursive form. The yù reading survived even though the visible shape now points to xīng.

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