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忪

sōng

Character

What 忪 means

1. used in {惺忪|xīng sōng}

Other readings

忪 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• zhōngused in {怔忪|zhēng zhōng}

Words containing 忪

• 睡眼惺忪shuì yǎn xīng sōng(idiom) sleepy-eyed; still half asleep
• 惺忪xīng sōngdrowsy-eyed; (literary) wavering; indecisive; (literary) awake; conscious; clearheaded
• 怔忪zhēng zhōngfrightened; scared; terrified

Characters built on 公

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

• 松sōngpine
• 讼sònglitigation
• 颂sòngode; eulogy; to praise in writing
• 蚣gōngused in 蜈蚣
• 彸zhōngrestless, agitated

Sounds the same

Read sōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 松pine
• 嵩(literary) (of mountains) lofty
• 菘(cabbage); Brassica chinensis
• 凇icicle
• 娀name of an ancient state
• 濍(onomatopoeia) sound of water
• 蜙used in 蜙蝑
• 淞name of a river in Jiangsu Province
• 崧variant of 嵩
• 梥old variant of 松