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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
yōng - to hold in one's arms; to embrace
- to surround; to gather around
- to throng; to swarm
- (bound form) to support (as in 擁護|拥护[yong1 hu4])
- (literary) to have; to possess
- Taiwan pr. [yong3]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 9,713 5,050 5,673

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Hand

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
拥有 6 5 737 649 568
拥抱 5 5 2,483 4,871 2,012
拥挤 5 7 8,351 8,805 7,542
- - 9,713 5,050 5,673
拥护 6 8 12,342 9,011 18,793
蜂拥而至 - - 21,985 33,365 43,332
拥堵 - - 27,374 - -
蜂拥 - - 27,796 - -
拥挤不堪 - - 35,478 51,182 53,313
拥戴 - - 35,522 38,261 39,699
簇拥 - 9 39,104 22,818 32,318
一拥而上 - - 46,937 33,256 39,211
拥塞 - - 79,937 64,014 88,850