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Mythic Mandarin

拥 (yōng): meaning and stroke order

拥 (yōng) means to hold in one's arms; to embrace, to surround; to gather around, to throng; to swarm.

拥

Simplified
拥
Traditional
擁
Pinyin
yōng

Stroke order of 拥

拥

  • yōng to hold in one's arms; to embrace; to surround; to gather around
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 擁

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 拥

  1. yōng Traditional 擁
    • to hold in one's arms; to embrace
    • to surround; to gather around
    • to throng; to swarm
    • (bound form) to support (as in 擁護|拥护[yong1 hu4])
    • (literary) to have; to possess
    • Taiwan pr. [yong3]

Radical and structure

拥
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 8 strokes · 扌 on the left, 用 on the right

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.

Words with 拥

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).