重 (chóng) · again; once more

Meanings

1 again; once more
2 to repeat; to redo
3 layer; tier
4 anew; afresh

Characters

重

chóng

again; once more

Examples

HSK 3

他决定重新开始学中文。

Tā juédìng chóngxīn kāishǐ xué Zhōngwén.

He decided to start learning Chinese again from the beginning.

HSK 5

刚才听不清楚，请你重复一下。

Gāngcái tīng bù qīngchu, qǐng nǐ chóngfù yíxià.

I didn't hear you clearly just now - could you repeat that?

HSK 6

两个版本的内容重复了，应该改一个。

Liǎng gè bǎnběn de nèiróng chóngfù le, yīnggāi gǎi yī gè.

The content in the two versions is duplicated - one of them should be rewritten.

Tips

mistakes

Don't confuse this chóng reading with zhòng. chóng always carries the sense of 'doing it over' or 'stacked layers': 重新 (anew), 重复 (repeat), 重逢 (reunite). If the compound means 'heavy' or 'important,' it's zhòng instead (重要, 体重).

memory

Picture 重 as a stack of identical layers - each one a re-do of the layer beneath. That image gives you both chóng senses at once: 'again' (do it one more layer) and 'layer/tier' (the classifier sense seen in poetic phrases like 千重山, a thousand layers of mountains).

Components

radical

里 lǐ

village; mile; inside

Lower indexing 里 radical - the modern filing component. Visually 里 shows 田 (field) over 土 (earth), an inhabited plot of ground. In 重 it's not historically productive (the original was 東+土), but the modern shape is filed under 里 for indexing convenience. Other 里-filed chars: 量 (measure), 野 (field/wild).

semantic

千 qiān

thousand

Top 千 - written as a 2-stroke contraction here (standalone 千 has 3 strokes; the bottom horizontal merges into 里 below in this overlay). Strict etymology disagrees: oracle-bone 重 shows a person carrying a heavy bundle over ground, and the modern shape is a fusion. 千 is a visual reanalysis, not historical, but pedagogically useful for indexing.