Kilo Lingo

从

cóng

Traditional: 從

HSK 2
#106 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

from, since, following

Stroke order

Stroke order for 从

从

Examples

。

I walked over from home.

。

Starting from now.

谎huǎng。

He never lies.

包bāo课kè。

He took out the textbook from his school bag.

画huà画huà。

I have liked drawing since I was little.

从 (cóng) means from, since, following. It is used as a preposition in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

到

to arrive; to (destination); result complement

来

to come (directional)

一直

always, continuously, all along

这儿

here, right here

之前

before, prior to

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 从.

从来cóng láialways, ever, from the beginning (used with negatives)从没cóng méinever (have done)

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This word is part of lesson 3.