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Mythic Mandarin

仍然 (réng rán): meaning and stroke order

仍然 (réng rán) means still; as before; yet.

仍然

Simplified
仍然
Traditional
仍然 (same form)
Pinyin
réng rán

Stroke order of 仍然

仍

  • réng still; yet; to remain
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

然

  • rán correct; right
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 仍然

  1. réng rán
    • still; as before; yet

Radicals of the characters

仍
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 4 strokes · 亻 on the left, 乃 on the right
然
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 12 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

仍然 in our stories

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  • 直到今天,中国人说起“三过家门而不入”,想到的仍然是他。

    zhídào jīntiān Zhōngguórén shuō qǐ sān guò jiāmén ér bú rù xiǎngdào de réngrán shì tā

    Even today, when Chinese people say "passing his door three times without going in", it is still Yu they think of.

    From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

  • 可这两条大河的水,仍然不够他解渴。他又向北方的大泽跑去,那里的湖水方圆千里。

    kě zhè liǎng tiáo dàhé de shuǐ réngrán bú gòu tā jiěkě tā yòu xiàng běifāng de dàzé pǎo qù nàli de húshuǐ fāngyuán qiānlǐ

    But the water of these two great rivers still could not quench his thirst. He ran on towards the Great Marsh in the north, whose waters stretched a thousand li around.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 两千多年过去了,我们身边的“叶公”一点儿也不少。也许,真正的喜欢,就是在它从画里走出来的那一刻,仍然不逃。

    liǎngqiān duō nián guòqu le wǒmen shēnbiān de Yègōng yìdiǎnr yě bù shǎo yěxǔ zhēnzhèng de xǐhuan jiùshì zài tā cóng huà lǐ zǒu chūlai de nà yíkè réngrán bù táo

    More than two thousand years on, there are just as many "Lord Yes" around us. Perhaps real love means not running away at the moment the thing steps out of the painting.

    From the story Lord Ye loves dragons HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 仍然

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).