yōng

former or literary name for Nanning (in Guangxi)

The area  around a river 

Components
巛 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuān

  

river

邑 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

city

Evolution

邕 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
邕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yōng

former or literary name for Nanning (in Guangxi); city surrounded by a moat; old variant of [yōng]; old variant of [yōng]

 

Yōng

Yong river (Guangxi); Nanning (Guangxi)

Most common words with 邕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Yong

邕宁

Yongnning District of Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市[Nán​níng​Shì], Guangxi

邕宁区

Yongnning District of Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市[Nán​níng​Shì], Guangxi

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[q](r)oŋ (< *[q](r)om)

'jowng

yōng

city moat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4695th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+9095

Shuowen

“邕,四方有水自邕城池者。从川,从邑。,籀文邕。”


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