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鄘

yōng
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) Yong, a Zhou-era state
  2. 2 surname Yong

Examples

这篇文章很平庸，毫无新意。
Zhèpiān wénzhāng hěn píngyōng, háowú xīnyì.
This essay is mediocre, with no fresh ideas at all.

Tips

history
Not used independently in modern Chinese except as a rare surname. It names a small state set up after the Zhou conquest of Shang, around present-day northern Henan, and lives on through the 诗经 section 鄘风. Built from the city radical 阝 plus phonetic 庸.
register
Classical and historical only; encountered when reading old geography or the Book of Songs, not in speech.

Components

radical
阝 yì
city; settlement
The right-side city radical, a squeezed form of 邑. On the right it always means a town or state, marking 鄘 as a place name like 郑 and 邓.
phonetic
庸 yōng
ordinary; phonetic
Fills the left and supplies the sound yōng, the same element behind 佣 and 镛. It contributes pronunciation only, not the place sense.

No stroke data for 鄘; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

In Pop Culture

鄘风 Yōngfēng
One of the fifteen regional song-sections of the 诗经; the only context where most readers ever meet this character.

Stroke Order

鄘 yōng