yōng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 short name for Nanning, Guangxi
  2. 2 (classical) a city surrounded by a moat

Examples

Nánníng jiǎnchēng Yōng, démíng yú gǔ yōng jiāng.
Nanning is abbreviated as Yong, after the old Yong River.

Tips

history
has no everyday standalone use. It originally meant a walled city ringed by water, then became an old place name; today it survives almost only as the one-character abbreviation for 南宁 (Nanning) and in the river name .
register
Archaic and literary; you meet it on maps, in old texts, and in etymology notes, not in conversation.

Components

radical
town; city
(town) is the indexing radical and carries the meaning: a settlement enclosed by the river above, hence a moated city.
semantic
chuān
river; flowing water
is a flowing-water form of (river), placed on top to picture the water that encircles the walled town below.

Stroke Order

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