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俑

yǒng

Character

What 俑 means

1. wooden figures buried with the dead

Words starting with 俑

• 俑坑yǒng kēngpit with funerary figures; pit containing terracotta warriors

Words containing 俑

• 兵马俑bīng mǎ yǒngfigurines of warriors and horses buried with the dead; Terracotta Army (historic site)
• 始作俑者shǐ zuò yǒng zhě(lit.) the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)…
• 陶俑táo yǒnga pottery figurine buried with the dead

Characters built on 甬

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

• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert
• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
• 勇yǒngbrave
• 桶tǒngbucket; (trash) can; barrel (of oil etc)
• 涌yǒngto well up; to gush forth; to surge
• 诵sòngto read aloud; to recite
• 捅tǒngto poke; to jab; to give (sb) a nudge; to prod; to disclose; to reveal
• 恿yǒngused in 怂恿

Characters that look like 俑

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 请qǐngto ask; to invite; please (do sth)
• 倡chàngto initiate; to instigate; to introduce
• 侦zhēnto scout; to spy; to detect
• 悄qiāoused in 悄悄
• 俏qiàogood-looking; charming; (of goods) in great demand
• 倔juéused in 倔强

Sounds the same

Read yǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 泳swimming; to swim
• 永forever; always; perpetual
• 勇brave
• 涌to well up; to gush forth; to surge
• 踊leap
• 咏to sing
• 蛹chrysalis; pupa
• 恿used in 怂恿
• 甬path screened by walls on both sides
• 禜sacrifice
• 埇raised path
• 栐(archaic) a kind of tree whose timber was used to make ceremonial tablets 笏