(yǒng) - forever, eternal (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
yǒngTraditional: 永
Translation
forever, eternal (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A pictographic character depicting a long, branching watercourse. The image of water flowing on and on was extended to the sense of forever or eternal.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- a picture of a long flowing watercourse
Stroke order
永
Examples
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I will love you forever.
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I will never forget this summer.
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Never give up.
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Never give up.
永 (yǒng) means forever and is bound; in everyday speech it lives mainly in 永远 (yǒngyuǎn), meaning always.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 永.
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Grammar articles
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