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永

yǒng

HSK 4 Character

What 永 means

1. forever
2. always
3. perpetual

Example sentences

• 永别。
  Yǒng bié.
  Gone forever.
• 永远。
  Always.
• 永远！
  Forever!
• 友谊永固。
  We'll be friends forever.
• 我会永远爱你。
  I will love you always.
• 他们永不言弃。
  They never give up.

Words starting with 永

• 永远yǒng yuǎnforever; eternal
• 永恒yǒng héngeternal; everlasting; fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
• 永不yǒng bùnever; will never
• 永久yǒng jiǔeverlasting; perpetual; lasting
• 永乐Yǒng lèYongle Emperor, reign name of third Ming emperor Zhu Di 朱棣
• 永生yǒng shēngto live forever; eternal life; all one's life
• 永别yǒng biéto part forever; eternal parting (i.e. death)
• 永久性yǒng jiǔ xìngpermanent
• 永存yǒng cúneverlasting; to endure forever
• 永垂不朽yǒng chuí bù xiǔeternal glory; will never be forgotten
• 永世yǒng shìeternal; forever
• 永定门Yǒng dìng ménYongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the…
• 永嘉Yǒng jiāYongjia county in Wenzhou 温州; reign name 307-313 of Jin Emperor Huai 晋怀帝
• 永无止境yǒng wú zhǐ jìng(idiom) without end; never-ending
• 永居yǒng jūpermanent residency (abbr. for 永久居留权
• 永续yǒng xùsustainable; perpetual
• 永动机yǒng dòng jīperpetual motion machine
• 永和市Yǒng hé shìYonghe or Yungho city in New Taipei City 新北市
• 永城市Yǒng chéng ShìYongcheng, a county-level city in Shangqiu City 商丘市
• 永安市Yǒng ān ShìYong'an, a county-level city in Sanming City 三明市
• 永定区Yǒng dìng QūYongding, a district of Zhangjiajie City 张家界市; Yongding, a district of Longyan City 龙岩市
• 永州市Yǒng zhōu ShìYongzhou, prefecture-level city in Hunan Province 湖南省
• 永年区Yǒng nián QūYongnian, a district of Handan City 邯郸市
• 永康区Yǒng kāng QūYongkang, a district of Tainan City 台南市

Words containing 永

• 崔永元Cuī Yǒng yuánCui Yongyuan (1963-), TV presenter
• 隽永juàn yǒngmeaningful; thought-provoking; significant
• 一劳永逸yī láo yǒng yìto get sth done once and for all
• 周永康Zhōu Yǒng kāngZhou Yongkang (1942-), PRC petroleum engineer and politician
• 王永民Wáng Yǒng mínWang Yongmin (1943-), inventor of the five stroke input method 五笔输入法
• 金永南Jīn Yǒng nánKim Yong-nam (1928-), North Korean politician, foreign minister 1983-1998, president of…
• 钱永健Qián Yǒng jiànRoger Yonchien Tsien (1952-), US Chinese chemist and 2008 Nobel laureate
• 与世永别yǔ shì yǒng biéto die
• 叶永烈Yè Yǒng lièYe Yonglie (1940-), popular science writer
• 青春永驻qīng chūn yǒng zhùto stay young forever
• 叙永县Xù yǒng XiànXuyong, a county in Luzhou City 泸州市
• 江永县Jiāng yǒng XiànJiangyong, a county in Yongzhou City 永州市
• 吴永刚Wú Yǒng gāngWu Yonggang (1907-1982), Chinese film director
• 柳永Liǔ YǒngLiu Yong (987-1053), Song poet
• 郭永怀Guō Yǒng huáiGuo Yonghuai (1909-1968), Chinese aviation pioneer
• 含味隽永hán wèi juàn yǒngfine, lasting flavor (of literature)
• 朝永振一郎Cháo yǒng Zhèn yī lángTOMONAGA Shin'ichirō (1906-1979), Japanese physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate with…
• 叙永Xù yǒngsee 叙永县
• 江永Jiāng yǒngsee 江永县

Characters that look like 永

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

• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 未wèinot yet; did not; have not
• 米mǐuncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan
• 衣yīclothes; Kangxi radical 145
• 朱zhūvermilion
• 丞chéngdeputy

Sounds the same

Read yǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 泳swimming; to swim
• 勇brave
• 涌to well up; to gush forth; to surge
• 踊leap
• 咏to sing
• 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