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(róng) - to contain, to allow; easy (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

róng

Traditional: 容

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Translation

to contain, to allow; easy (bound morpheme)

Word origin

An ideographic compound of the roof radical 宀 over 谷 (gǔ, valley), suggesting a space that holds things, hence to contain, to hold or to allow.

Origin
ideographic
Root
宀 (roof) + 谷 (gǔ, valley), a space that holds

Stroke order

Stroke order for 容

Examples

This question is very easy.

Learning English is not easy.

This book is easy to understand.

wēnróu

Her smile is very gentle.

This room can hold ten people.

容 (róng) means to contain or to permit, but in modern Mandarin it most often forms 容易 (róng yì), easy.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 容.

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This word is part of lesson 105.