róng

melt

Components
鬲 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

type of cauldron with three hollow legs

cauldron

虫 sound component

  Sound component

chóng

  

bug, insect

Evolution

融 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
融 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
融 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
融 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

róng

melt, fuse; blend, harmonize; to melt; to thaw; to blend; to merge; to be in harmony

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róng

old variant of [róng]

Most common words with 融
Freq.
Word
Meaning

金融

banking

融入

to blend into

融合

a mixture

融化

to melt

to melt

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*luŋ (? < *lum)

yuwng

róng

hot air, steam, heat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.4985% of movies

1694th most common character in movies

1225th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+878D

Shuowen

“融,炊气上出也。从鬲,蟲省聲。籀文融不省。”


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