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Mythic Mandarin

涌 (yǒng): meaning and stroke order

涌 (yǒng) means to bubble up, to rush forth, variant of 涌, (used in place names).

涌

Simplified
涌
Traditional
湧, 涌
Pinyin
yǒng · chōng

Stroke order of 涌

涌

  • chōng (used in place names)
  • yǒng variant of 湧|涌[yong3]
  • yǒng to bubble up; to rush forth
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 湧

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 涌

  1. yǒng Traditional 湧
    • to bubble up
    • to rush forth
  2. yǒng
    • variant of 湧|涌[yong3]
  3. chōng
    • (used in place names)

Radical and structure

涌
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 10 strokes · 氵 on the left, 甬 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.

涌 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 更可怕的是，天空破了一个大窟窿，大火从天上烧下来，洪水从地下涌出来，猛兽四处伤人。

    gèng kěpà de shì tiānkōng pò le yí gè dà kūlong dà huǒ cóng tiān shàng shāo xiàlai hóngshuǐ cóng dì xià yǒng chūlai měngshòu sìchù shāng rén

    Worse still, a great hole tore open in the sky: fire rained down from above, floods gushed up from below, and wild beasts attacked people everywhere.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 涌

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).