漾 (yàng): to ripple

Meanings

1 to ripple
2 to overflow / brim over
3 to billow (of a feeling, smile, sound)

Characters

漾

yàng

ripple / overflow (radical: 氵 water)

Examples

HSK 3

碗里的汤要漾出来了。

Wǎn lǐ de tāng yào yàng chūlái le.

The soup in the bowl is about to brim over.

HSK 6

她的脸上漾起了笑容。

Tā de liǎnshàng yàng qǐ le xiàoróng.

A smile spread across her face.

HSK 7-9

湖面上漾着微波。

Húmiàn shàng yàng zhe wēibō.

Ripples shimmered across the lake's surface.

Tips

usage

A literary/poetic verb. Three overlapping senses: (1) physical rippling of water, (2) liquid overflowing a container (碗里的汤漾出来), (3) a metaphorical "rippling" - a smile spreading across a face (笑容漾开), warmth filling the heart (心里漾起暖意), music drifting on the air. The water radical 氵 reflects all three: motion that spreads outward.

memory

Also used in place names - 漾濞 is a county in Yunnan.

Components

radical

氵 shuǐ

water (left-side form)

氵 is the water radical 水 in three-drop left-side form. It marks 漾 as a water-surface word, grouping it with 波 (wave), 涟 (ripple), and 浪 (wave) - the gentle rocking 漾 names is what happens when a breeze brushes a pond.

phonetic

羕 yàng

long-flowing water

羕 supplies the reading yàng directly with no shift. It is itself an old word for water flowing far and wide, so it doubles as a faint semantic echo of the rippling expanse 漾 names. Same phonetic appears in 样 (sample) and 样-family chars.