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忡

chōng

Character

What 忡 means

1. grieved
2. distressed
3. sad
4. uneasy

Words containing 忡

• 忧心忡忡yōu xīn chōng chōngdeeply worried and sick at heart (idiom)
• 怔忡zhēng chōng(of the heart) palpitating with fear; palpitation (Chinese medicine)

Characters built on 中

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

• 种zhǒngseed; species; kind
• 冲chōng(of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse
• 钟zhōnghandleless cup; goblet; (bound form) to concentrate (one's affection etc); variant of 钟
• 仲zhòngsecond month of a season; middle; intermediate
• 虫chónglower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures…
• 忠zhōngloyal; devoted; faithful
• 肿zhǒngto swell; swelling; swollen
• 衷zhōnginner feelings

Characters that look like 忡

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

• 件jiànitem; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc
• 仲zhòngsecond month of a season; middle; intermediate
• 伸shēnto stretch; to extend
• 绅shēnmember of gentry
• 忖cǔnto ponder; to speculate; to consider
• 狎xiá(bound form; literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously

Sounds the same

Read chōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 冲(of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse
• 充sufficient; full; to fill; to serve as; to act as
• 涌(used in place names)
• 舂to pound (grain etc) with a mortar and pestle
• 憧used in 憧憬; used in 憧憧
• 翀soar
• 㳘(literary) (of a mountain stream) to flow down; (onomatopoeia) sound of flowing water
• 憃foolish; stupid; dull; silly
• 艟used in 艨艟; Taiwan pr. tóng
• 摏variant of 舂