仍
réngTraditional: 仍
#1140 of 5,000 Core 5000
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
仍
Examples
。
He still remembers that day.
。
The problem is still unsolved.
雨。
The rain is still falling.
。
She still holds to her view.
局势。
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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