營

• Physical/Military: An encampment, barracks, or fortified settlement (noun); to build fortifications or establish a base and perimeter (verb).
• Administrative/Intellectual: To manage, administer, or orchestrate. This implies the "layout" or arrangement of resources and people to achieve a specific goal, ranging from neutral administration to calculating or scheming (verb).
• Psychological: Often appearing in reduplicated form (營營), denoting anxious striving, restlessness, or an obsessive preoccupation with worldly gains and attachments (adj./adv.).

Primarily transitive when functioning as a verb.

• vs. 謀 (móu): While both involve planning, 謀 emphasizes the secret intent or "plot," whereas 營 focuses on structural arrangement and execution.
• vs. 盈 (yíng): Phonetically related but semantically distinct; 盈 refers to volume and fullness, while 營 refers to boundary and organization.

Simplified variant: U+8425. Historical readings include Fanqie 余傾 and Tang-period *iuɛng iuɛng.

When selecting a sense, consider the conceptual trajectory of the glyph: Physical Perimeter → Administrative Organization → Mental Calculation/Anxiety.