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仍

réng

yet

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 乃 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

乃 sound component

乃  Sound component

nǎi

  

then

Evolution

仍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
仍 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
仍 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
仍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仍  

réng

yet, still, as ever; again; keep -ing, continuing; still; yet; to remain

Most common words with 仍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

仍

still

仍然

still

仍旧

yet

频仍

frequent

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nəŋ

nying

réng

repeat


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 43.0402% of movies

975th most common character in movies

601st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+4ECD

Shuowen

“仍，因也。从人，乃聲。”


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