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踊

yǒng

HSK 6 Character

What 踊 means

1. leap

Other readings

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

• yǒngleap

Words starting with 踊

• 踊跃yǒng yuèto leap; to jump; eager

Characters built on 甬

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

• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert
• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
• 勇yǒngbrave
• 桶tǒngbucket; (trash) can; barrel (of oil etc)
• 涌yǒngto well up; to gush forth; to surge
• 诵sòngto read aloud; to recite
• 捅tǒngto poke; to jab; to give (sb) a nudge; to prod; to disclose; to reveal
• 恿yǒngused in 怂恿

Characters that look like 踊

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

• 璃lí(phonetic character used in transliteration of foreign names); Taiwan pr. lì; variant of 璃
• 缝féngto sew; to stitch
• 聪cōng(literary) acute (of hearing); (bound form) clever; intelligent; sharp
• 酶méienzyme; ferment
• 塘tángdyke; embankment; pool or pond
• 璇xuán(jade)

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
• 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