运营

yùn yíng · HSK 7

to do business

🏢🚌 运 (move/run) + 营 (manage, as in 营 a camp) = to keep a business or service running

运 carries the sense of moving or running things along (same 运 as in 运动 movement); 营 means to manage or operate, originally running a military 营 camp. Together: keeping a business operating or a bus/train in service.

运 — walk radical 辶 + 军 jūn (army)
Originally depicted an army (军) on the move (辶), meaning to transport or move troops. The sense broadened to 'transport, move, revolve' and later acquired the abstract meaning of 'fortune' or 'luck'—what fate moves toward you. The simplified form replaces traditional 運.

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