仍 (réng): still

Meanings

1 still
2 yet
3 as before

Characters

仍

réng

still; yet; as before

Examples

HSK 1

他仍住在那里。

Tā réng zhù zài nàlǐ.

He still lives there.

HSK 3

问题仍没有解决。

Wèntí réng méiyǒu jiějué.

The problem still hasn't been solved.

HSK 5

尽管很难，她仍坚持下来了。

Jǐnguǎn hěn nán, tā réng jiānchí xiàlái le.

Despite the difficulty, she still persevered.

Tips

usage

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

Components

radical

亻 rén

person (radical form)

Left person radical - the side-form of 人. Originally 仍 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

乃 nǎi

then; thus (here phonetic)

Right 乃 supplies the sound - nǎi drifted to réng. 乃 itself is a classical adverb meaning "thereupon, then"; its faint semantic flavor of continuation aligns nicely with "still, yet" in 仍. Same phonetic appears in 扔 (throw) and 奶 (milk).