# 栄

| 栄 | U+6804, &#26628; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6804 |
| ← 栃 [U+6803] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 栅 → [U+6805] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 榮 |
| Shinjitai | 栄 |
| Simplified | 荣 |

### Han character

栄 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火月木 (FBD), composition ⿱𰃮木 or ⿱𭕄𣎾)

#### Derived characters

* 𭱚 𮈰 𮢚

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 521, character 12
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14687
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 1188, character 9
* Unihan data for U+6804

## Chinese

* For pronunciation and definitions of 栄 – see 榮 (“glory; honour; to flourish; to prosper; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 榮).

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 栄 |
| Kyūjitai | 榮 |

### Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 榮)

#### Readings

* Go-on: よう (yō)
* Kan-on: えい (ei, Jōyō)
* Kun: さかえる (sakaeru, 栄える, Jōyō)、はえ (hae, 栄え, Jōyō)、はえる (haeru, 栄える, Jōyō)
* Nanori: さか (saka)、さかえ (sakae)、しげ (shige)、しげる (shigeru)、たか (taka)、てる (teru)、とも (tomo)、なが (naga)、はる (haru)、ひさ (hisa)、ひさし (hisashi)、ひで (hide)、ひろ (hiro)、まさ (masa)、よし (yoshi)

#### Compounds

* 弥(いや)栄(さか) (iyasaka), 弥(や)栄(さか) (yasaka)
* 栄螺(サザエ) (sazae)
* 見栄(みえ) (mie)

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 栄
* えい Grade: 4
* kan'on
* Alternative spelling
* 榮 (kyūjitai)
From Middle Chinese 榮 (MC hjwaeng).

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) えー [éꜜè] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [e̞ː]

#### Affix

栄(えい) • (ei)
* honour; glory
* flourishing; prosperous
* (of vegetation) lush; luxuriant

##### Derived terms

* 栄(えい)華(が) (eiga)
* 栄(えい)枯(こ) (eiko)
* 栄(えい)光(こう) (eikō)
* 栄(えい)誉(よ) (eiyo)
* 栄(えい)養(よう) (eiyō), 栄(え)養(よう) (eyō)
* 虚(きょ)栄(えい) (kyoei)
* 共(きょう)栄(えい) (kyōei)
* 光(こう)栄(えい) (kōei)
* 清(せい)栄(えい) (seiei)
* 盛(せい)栄(えい) (seiei)
* 繁(はん)栄(えい) (han'ei)

#### Noun

栄(えい) • (ei)
* (literary) honour, glory
    Synonym: 誉れ (homare)

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 栄
* は(え) Grade: 4
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 榮 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 栄 – see the following entry. :
| 【はえ】 | [noun] 映え, 栄え, 栄: prosperity [verb] imperfective and stem (or continuative) forms of はえる (haeru) [ichidan] Alternative spellings 映え, 栄え |
(This term, 栄, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### Etymology 3

* Kanji in this term
* 栄
* さか(え) Grade: 4
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 榮 (kyūjitai)
Nominalization of the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative from”) of verb 栄える (sakaeru, “to thrive”).

#### Proper noun

栄(さかえ) • (Sakae)
* a male given name
* a surname

### Etymology 4

* Kanji in this term
* 栄
* ろん Grade: 4
* irregular
* Alternative spelling
* 榮 (kyūjitai)
Invented for Japanese mahjong by Rin Mokō 林茂光 from such a call from some regions of China, after he found that the usual call in Mandarin 和 (hú) was problematic for Japanese speakers. He adopted the character 栄 as ateji, but later discovered that the original character for this sound was 攏 (lǒng). Nevertheless, the character 栄 remained and was accepted as standard.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɾõ̞ɴ]

#### Noun

栄(ロン) • (ron)
* (mahjong) Short for 栄和 (ronhō): a win by picking up an opponent's discarded tile
* (mahjong) a call for such a win

#### Coordinate terms

* 自摸(ツモ) (tsumo)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN