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甬

yǒng

Character

What 甬 means

1. path screened by walls on both sides

Other readings

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

• YǒngYong River {甬江|Yǒng Jiāng} in Ningbo {宁波|Níng bō}; short name for Ningbo
• tǒngvariant of {桶|tǒng}, bucket; (classifier) cubic dry measure (5 pecks 五斗, approx half-liter

Words starting with 甬

• 甬道yǒng dàowalled-in path; paved pathway; canopied passageway
• 甬江Yǒng JiāngYong River in Ningbo 宁波
• 甬路yǒng lùpaved path

Characters that look like 甬

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

• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)
• 杀shāto kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart
• 角jiǎoangle; corner; horn
• 肩jiānshoulder; to shoulder (responsibilities etc)
• 卤lǔto stew in soy sauce and spices
• 鸢yuānkite (small hawk)

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
• 咏to sing
• 蛹chrysalis; pupa
• 恿used in 怂恿
• 俑wooden figures buried with the dead
• 禜sacrifice
• 埇raised path
• 栐(archaic) a kind of tree whose timber was used to make ceremonial tablets 笏