Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/永-yǒng

Welcome to our Mandarin Chinese vocabulary lesson focusing on the character "永 yǒng". As a seasoned Mandarin Chinese language teacher with 20 years of experience, I am excited to guide you through this lesson. After mastering the character 永 yǒng, you may also want to explore other related vocabulary lessons, such as 检(檢) jiăn examine, 把 bă take, hold, and 深 shēn deep. These lessons will further enhance your understanding and usage of Mandarin Chinese vocabulary. Let's dive in and start learning! 😊📚

永 (yǒng)

Today, we will learn the Chinese character 永 (yǒng) which means "forever" or "eternity" and is pronounced "yǒng".

This character balanced and perfect structure onsists of 8 strokes which are the basic strokes of "Regular script", which is the newest of the Chinese script styles, hence most common in modern writings and publications.

It is said the Calligrapher-Sage, Wang Xizhi, spent many years practicing this character (among others).

As a radical

It's a radical in other characters like in:

• 脉 (mài): arteries and veins
• 咏 (yǒng): to sing
• 泳 (yǒng): to swim

In words

The characters appears in words like:

• 永不 (yǒng bù): never
• 永世 (yǒng shì): forever
• 永恒/永恆 (yǒng héng): eternal, everlasting
• 永生 (yǒng shēng): to live forever

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• 主 zhŭ master, host, lord; main
• 究 jiū study
• tā it
• Colors
• 愿(願) yuàn wish, want
• 音 yīn sound
• 假 jià vacation, leave jiă false; if
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