蜂拥

蜂擁
fēngyōng
verb #27,796

Meanings

  1. 1 to swarm; to flock; to throng
  2. 2 to surge forward in a crowd

Examples

Qiúsài jiéshù hòu, qiúmímen fēngyōng yǒng chū tǐyùchǎng.
After the match ended, fans swarmed out of the stadium.
Xiāoxi yī chū, jìzhěmen fēngyōng ér zhì.
As soon as the news broke, reporters flocked to the scene.

Tips

memory
= bee, = to crowd/embrace. Imagine bees swarming out of a hive — that's exactly the image 蜂拥 captures. It's almost always followed by a direction word, like 蜂拥而至 (swarm to a place) or 蜂拥 (swarm upward).

Stroke Order

fēng
yōng