nóng

thick

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

农 sound component

  Sound component

nóng

  

agriculture, farming

Evolution

浓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
浓 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
浓 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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nóng

thick, strong, concentrated; concentrated; dense; strong (smell etc)

Most common words with 浓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

dense

浓度

consistency

浓缩

concentration

浓厚

dense

浓烟

thick smoke