réng
adverb HSK 3 #1,474

Meanings

  1. 1 still
  2. 2 yet
  3. 3 as before

Examples

Tā réng zhù zài nàlǐ.
He still lives there.
Wèntí réng méiyǒu jiějué.
The problem still hasn't been solved.
Jǐnguǎn hěn nán, tā réng jiānchí xiàlái le.
Despite the difficulty, she still persevered.

Tips

usage
is more literary than . In formal writing, is preferred; in daily conversation, is more natural.

Components

radical
rén
person (radical form)
Left person radical — the side-form of . Originally meant "to follow on, to continue from" — an action attributed to a person carrying on doing something. The radical anchors the human-continuation sense, from which came the modern adverbial "still, yet, as before."
phonetic
nǎi
then; thus (here phonetic)
Right supplies the sound — nǎi drifted to réng. itself is a classical adverb meaning "thereupon, then"; its faint semantic flavor of continuation aligns nicely with "still, yet" in . Same phonetic appears in (throw) and (milk).

Stroke Order

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