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惸

qióng

Character

What 惸 means

1. variant of {茕|qióng}

Sounds the same

Read qióng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 穷poor; destitute; to use up
• 琼jasper; fine jade; beautiful
• 穹vault; dome; the sky
• 瞏(literary) to gaze in terror; (literary) alone; unaided
• 跫sound of footsteps
• 邛mound; place name
• 蛩anxious; grasshopper; a cricket
• 茕alone; desolate
• 筇(in ancient texts) type of bamboo sometimes used as a staff
• 䓖used in 芎䓖
• 璚(red stone)
• 笻variant of 筇

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• How characters are built from components.
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