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擁

yōng

embrace

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 雍 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

hand

雍 sound component

雍  Sound component

yōng

  

harmony

Evolution

擁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
擁 Regular script Modern

Regular 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 擁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拥有

to have

拥抱

to embrace

拥

to hold

拥挤

crowded

拥护

to endorse

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 47.3490% of movies

919th most common character in movies

1059th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

拥

Unicode

U+64C1

Shuowen

“，抱也。从手，雝聲。”


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