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臃

yōng

Character

What 臃 means

1. used in {臃肿|yōng zhǒng}

Words starting with 臃

• 臃肿yōng zhǒngobese; bloated; swollen (style)

Characters built on 月

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

• 肿zhǒngto swell; swelling; swollen
• 胧lóngused in 朦胧
• 脓nóngpus
• 胴dònglarge intestine; torso
• 肱gōngupper arm; arm
• 肜Róngsurname Rong
• 胨dòngsee 蛋白胨

Characters that look like 臃

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

• 撼hànto shake; to vibrate
• 蹦bèngto jump; to bounce; to hop
• 癜diànerythema; leucoderm
• 糠kānghusk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)
• 膦lìnphosphine
• 癞làiscabies; skin disease

Sounds the same

Read yōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 拥to hold in one's arms; to embrace; to surround; to gather around; to throng; to swarm
• 佣to hire; to employ; servant
• 庸ordinary; to use
• 雍harmony
• 慵lethargic
• 镛large bell
• 墉fortified wall; city wall
• 壅to obstruct; to stop up; to heap soil around the roots of a plant
• 邕city surrounded by a moat; old variant of 雍; old variant of 壅
• 痈carbuncle
• 饔(literary) cooked food; breakfast
• 廱harmonious