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拥

yōng

embrace

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 用 represents the sound. Simplified form of 擁.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

用 sound component

用  Sound component

yòng

  

use

Evolution

拥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拥 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
拥 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
拥 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

拥 (擁) 

yōng

embrace, hug, squeeze; crowd; to hold; to embrace; to wrap around; to gather around (sb); to throng; to swarm; to support; Taiwan pr. [yǒng]

Most common words with 拥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拥有

to have

拥抱

to embrace

拥

to hold

拥挤

crowded

拥护

to endorse

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 47.3490% of movies

919th most common character in movies

1059th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

擁

Unicode

U+62E5


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