Taxonomy of meanings for 盈:　　

  • 盈 yíng (OC: leŋ MC: jiɛŋ) 以成切 平 廣韻：【充也滿也又姓出姓苑以成切十二 】
    • FULL
      • vibe full; (of moon) wax
      • vtoNthe condition of being filled
      • vichangebecome full, fill up
      • nabderivedfeeling of being full of oneself; self-satisfactionCH
      • causative> FILL
        • vt[oN]figurativegive full expression to things, be fanatic about things
        • vt+prep+Nfill up; make up (a number, as many as ten etc) 盈於
        • vtoNfill (primarily a container or a depression in the earth)
        • vtoNfigurativefill out (the ear with music etc)
        • vtoNliteral, passivebe filled
        • vt[oN]fill up and clutter up the coffersCH
        • vtoNfigurativedo everything to fulfill (desires etc.)CH
        • vtoNfigurative, middle voiceget filled upCH
      • abstract> ABUNDANT
          • sufficiently> ENOUGH
              • excessively> EXCESSIVE
                  • unneeded> SURPLUS
                    • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003: excessJZ 7.4, Liu Hui's comm: 不盈不朒之正數 "the exact quantity, without excess and without shortfall"
              • in number> MANY
              • causative> ADD
                • fully satisfied> DELIGHT
                  • nabactfulfillment
                • psychological, full of oneself> ARROGANT
                • proper names> MALES OF JIN

                  Additional information about 盈

                  說文解字: 【盈】，滿器也。从皿、夃。 【臣鉉等曰：夃，古乎切，益多之意也。古者以買物多得爲夃，故从夃。】 【以成切】

                    Criteria
                  • REDUCE

                    1. The current general word for diminishing or lessening anything in any way is sǔn 損 (ant. yì 益 "increase, improve")..

                    2. Kuī 虧 (ant. yíng 盈 "cause to become more plentiful") refers to impairing a typically abstract or at least subtle thing.

                    3. Jiǎn 減 (ant. zēng 增 "increase") typically refers to a reduction in the intensitity or in the number of something.

                    4. Shǎo 少 is used to refer to the reducing the number of things. See FEW

                  • EXHAUST

                    1. The current general word for using up anything material or immaterial is jìn 盡.

                    2. Jié 竭 (ant. yíng 盈 "leave plenty of something") typically refers to the using up of what one has in one, or what one owns.

                    3. Xī 悉 refers to using up all that is under one's control or command.

                    4. Qióng 窮 and dān 殫 focusses on the result of exhausting resources as being the absence of these resources.

                    NB: Fá 乏 (ant. zú 足 "leave a sufficient supply of") refers to the state of something being almost completely used up, and the word is thus marginal in the group.

                  • FILL

                    1. The most general and current word in this group is probably yíng 盈 (ant. xū 虛 "empty out") which refers to any filling up or filling in, abstract or concrete.

                    2. Chōng 充 refers to the concrete filling out completely of a container or a suitable empty space with (often desirable) physical substances.

                    3. Sài 塞 emphasises the nuance of filling in a space not necessarily designed to be filled in so as to block the free passage of other substances.

                    4. Mǎn 滿 is a word that was rather late to gain currency, replacing certain usages of yíng 盈, and it refers to the filling out of all of an empty space, with large amounts or large numbers of some specified kind of objects.

                    5. Tián 填 is originally to fill out something so as to make a level surface.

                  • FULL

                    1. The ancient standard word for fullness of any kind is yíng 盈.

                    2. Mǎn 滿 became current in late Warring States times only, and the word is semantically hard to distinguish from yíng 盈.

                    3. Chōng 充 refers to complete fullness, fullness to the brim, typically as something desirable or satisfactory.

                    4. Shí 實 can refer to something being full of solid substance, and thus by extension not tenuous or unimportant.

                    Word relations
                  • Ant: (FULL)沖/EMPTY
                  • Ant: (FULL)闕/EMPTY
                  • Ant: (FULL)竭/EXHAUST Jié 竭 (ant. yíng 盈 "leave plenty of something") typically refers to the using up of what one has in one, or what one owns.
                  • Ant: (FULL)虛/EMPTY The most geneal word is xū 虛 (ant. shí 實 "substantial and full") which can refer both to physical emptiness of a space and to abstract emptiness or tenuousness as a philosophical concept.
                  • Ant: (FULL)虧/LACK