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(réng) - still, yet in Mandarin

réng

Traditional: 仍

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Translation

still, yet

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound with the person radical and a phonetic element, conveying carrying on as before. It means still or yet.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
亻 (person) + 乃 (nǎi, phonetic)

Stroke order

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Examples

He still remembers that day.

The problem is still unsolved.

The rain is still falling.

She still holds to her view.

shì

The situation is still tense.

仍 (réng) means still, yet. It is the literary short form of 仍然 and reads as more formal than 还.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 仍.

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This word is part of lesson 23.