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咏

yǒng

Character Traditional 詠

What 咏 means

1. to sing

Words starting with 咏

• 咏叹调yǒng tàn diàoaria
• 咏春yǒng chūnWing Chun; same as 咏春拳; Yongchun - "Singing Spring Fist" (Chinese martial art)
• 咏春拳yǒng chūn quánYongchun - "Singing Spring Fist" (Chinese martial art)

Words containing 咏

• 歌咏gē yǒngto sing
• 谭咏麟Tán Yǒng línAlan Tam (1950-), Hong Kong Canto-pop singer and actor
• 吟咏yín yǒngto recite; to sing (of poetry)
• 袁咏仪Yuán Yǒng yíAnita Yuen (1971-), Hong Kong actress

Characters that look like 咏

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

• 味wèitaste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel
• 哇wāWow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting
• 咪mīsound for calling a cat
• 哒dā(phonetic); command to a horse; clatter (of horses' hoofs)
• 哝nóng(bound form) to mutter; to mumble
• 哌pàiused in transliteration

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
• 蛹chrysalis; pupa
• 恿used in 怂恿
• 俑wooden figures buried with the dead
• 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