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丛

cóng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 叢

丛 (cóng) means "cluster; collection; collection of books". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 丛 means

1. cluster
2. collection
3. collection of books
4. thicket

How 丛 is used in grammar

丛 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

• Advanced Measure Words: Nominal and Verbal (HSK 6)

Example sentences

• 那是丛林狼吗？
  Nà shì cónglínláng ma?
  Is that a coyote?
• 狮子是丛林之王。
  Shīzi shì cónglín zhī wáng.
  The lion is the king of the jungle.
• 花园里杂草丛生。
  Weeds sprang up in the garden.
• 蜜蜂在花丛中飞行。
  Mìfēng zài huācóng zhōng fēixíng.
  Bees are flying among the flowers.
• 飞机消失在丛林中。
  The plane disappeared into the forest.
• 我躲在高草丛里了。
  I hid in the tall grass.

Words starting with 丛

• 丛书cóng shūa series of books; a collection of books
• 丛林cóng línjungle; thicket; forest
• 丛生cóng shēnggrowing as a thicket; overgrown; breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
• 丛谈cóng tándiscussion; forum
• 丛集cóng jíto crowd together; to pile up; to cluster; (book) collection; series
• 丛台区Cóng tái QūCongtai, a district of Handan City 邯郸市
• 丛林法则cóng lín fǎ zéthe law of the jungle
• 丛冢cóng zhǒngmass grave; cluster of graves
• 丛台Cóng táisee 丛台区

Words containing 丛

• 草丛cǎo cóngunderbrush
• 树丛shù cóngthicket; undergrowth
• 灌木丛guàn mù cóngshrub; shrubbery
• 花丛huā cóngcluster of flowers; inflorescence; flowering shrub
• 人丛rén cóngcrowd of people
• 单丛Dān cóngDancong, type of oolong tea
• 灌丛guàn cóngscrub; shrubland; undergrowth
• 孔丛子Kǒng cóng zǐthe K'ung family Masters' anthology, collection of dialogues between Confucius and his…
• 纤维丛xiān wéi cóngfiber bundle (math.)
• 太阳神经丛tài yáng shén jīng cóngsolar plexus chakra
• 蚕丛Cán CóngCan Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture
• 百弊丛生bǎi bì cóng shēngAll the ill effects appear. (idiom)

Characters built on 从

These share the phonetic component 从 (cóng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 众zhòng(bound form) crowd; multitude; (bound form) many; numerous
• 纵zòngvertical; north-south (Taiwan pr. zōng); from front to back; longitudinal…
• 耸sǒngto excite; to raise up; to shrug
• 怂sǒngused in 怂恿; (literary) terrified
• 疭zòngused in 瘛疭
• 枞cōngfir tree
• 苁cōngBoschniakia glabra

Sounds the same

Read cóng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 从from; through; via; (bound form) to follow; (bound form) to obey
• 淙noise of water
• 琮jade tube with round hole and rectangular sides, used ceremonially in ancient times
• 悰joy
• 賨tribute paid by Han dynasty tribes
• 漎a place where small streams flow into a large one
• 潀gather; flow into (water); sound of waters flowing together
• 従old variant of 从

Where 丛 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cì–dā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cóng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.