yǒng, chōng
surge up
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 甬 represents the sound. Simplified form of 湧.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 涌
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to bubble up | ||
to spring up | ||
turbulent | ||
influx | ||
to bubble out |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.2218% of movies
2543rd most common character in movies
1642nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6D8C |
Shuowen | “涌,滕也。从水,甬聲。一曰涌水,在楚國。” |
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