(yōng) - embrace, possess, crowd in Mandarin
yōngTraditional: 拥
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Translation
embrace, possess, crowd
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the hand radical 扌 gives the meaning of grasping and embracing, while 用 (yòng) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌 (hand radical) + 用 (yòng, phonetic)
Stroke order
拥
Examples
。
He owns three companies.
。
The mother embraces the child.
。
The child sleeps holding their mother.
群口。
The crowd surged towards the exit.
。
She held the child tightly in her arms.
拥 (yōng) means embrace or possess, used in 拥有 (yōngyǒu, own) and 拥抱 (yōngbào, embrace).
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 拥.
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